Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whippet tanks were the peak of each column. Then came a fan-shaped formation of red-fezzed Askaris carrying auto-matic rifles, searching every inch of the ground for pitfalls, every rock for snipers. Then the main advance: infantrymen in single file slogging along the gutters and the centres of the rude roadways jammed with trucks, caissons, field pieces, and long lines of swaying supercilious camels. Labor battalions, stripped to the waist, were mixed right in with the marching men. As the infantry advanced they sprang to work building roads for the heavy trucks to follow, singing...
...carnauba palm is "the tree of life" to native Brazilians, who use its wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm...
Threats of violence were made good when Times Reporter Tipton Shields Blish was set upon in the Marion County Courthouse, hospitalized with his cheekbone broken in 20 places. For that assault police arrested onetime Deputy Prosecuter Peter Anthony Cancilla, whose record includes a conviction for auto theft. Last week Cancilla was convicted of the attack on Newshawk Blish, fined $50 Scripps-Howard executives announced that the Indianapolis Times would pursue its investigation of local corruption further only if "reason for doing so exists." City Editor Harold La Polt, who had actively abetted the Powell crusade was was relegated...
...over 50 and never been on my back with sickness yet, have a fine wife and son who have never been sick and one of the finest offices in the whole profession. I'm healthy and athletic and play a wonderful game of handball. I never had an auto accident, never been hurt in any kind of accident, . . . and never been out of a job. As for the Depression, I never felt...
...search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future, it was at least clear last week that his search for a scene of activity had really ended. Of Bonneville Salt Flats, which is likely to be the centre of most important auto speed tests in the future, Driver Campbell said: "It is the world's greatest speed course...