Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland's Mount Tabor Park, with one arm stretched toward the city centre...
...sterling qualities extend beyond the ability to protect Bear territory, McLaughry specializes in line bucking. Captain Atwell is the spark-plug of the team. He has been a potent factor at instilling fight into his team-mates. The impetus of the Brown aerials will come from his right arm...
Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews of the Wage-Hour law last week announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden...
...Australia's tiny eleven-year-old capital, Canberra, British Air Marshal Sir Edward Ellington, Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force, was recently invited by the Australian Government to inspect the Commonwealth's proud fighting air arm. Sir Edward came, saw and last week issued a pants-slapping report...
...main types of the disease are recognized: bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas, which causes inflammation of the lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made from immunized horse blood, has not so far proved of great value...