Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes were burst in by plundering Barcelona crowds. Ahead of them fled such terrified Spaniards as famed Guitarist Andres Segovia and his wife who were obliged to leave behind her jewels and his children by a previous marriage...
...Chicago's Century of Progress.- Desiring to sponsor the. first transparent woman, principally as an educational exhibit for the U. S. public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen...
...great corn states of Iowa and Illinois, the temperature rose to 115° and in the grain pit corn kept pace, next day mounting a full 4? to $1.16 a bu. This put democratic corn ahead of aristocratic wheat ($1.14 a bushel) for the first time in six years. Next day September-delivery corn rose 3!^ to $1.igf, a price unequaled since the great days when War-starved Europe bought all the U. S. grain it could get. and cash corn sold...
...motor sounded very loud and suddenly stopped. My wife said, 'That's funny. I wonder if it crashed.'... I dressed and went out. Other people whom I met said the plane had crashed. It was very foggy and I couldn't see 20 feet ahead of me ... so I went back to bed." Had he pushed on to the boundaries of his farm, George Behlmann would have come upon the scene of the third wreck of a U. S. airliner...
Chairman Arnott went to work, but before the second price stabilization program got under way, it was pigeonholed by the Government. Oilmen went ahead with operations of their own, on which the present indictment is based. When they got under way almost the only howl came from the jobbers...