Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...
Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...This good news was considerably bolstered by his announcement that second-quarter earnings ($3,822,927) were up a whopping 2.443% from the second quarter of 1938. Bethlehem's common stock greeted this by dropping half a point and the stock market as a whole by backing away from the peak it stopped at two weeks ago (144.71 on the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials...
Down they drifted leisurely toward the southern front, ran into a Japanese advance, but were helped away just in time by efficient Rightist Newshawk Peter Fleming (News From Tartary). Despite twinges of conscience, they let themselves be carried over the mountains by coolies, wound up in the Shanghai International Settlement as guests of British Ambassador Kerr at Number One House...