Word: baling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franc et des Nations, in 1925, and sold $4,000,000 worth of securities to poor Frenchmen, eight of whom committed suicide when she was jailed for swindling and bankruptcy. For 15 months she sat in her cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike to get her case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took...
...centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
...John Hollis Bankhead and Representative William B. Bankhead persuaded the Administration to endorse their measure to tax surplus production out of existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill to assign each planter a bale quota based on his past production and then tax him 50% of the market value of each bale ginned in excess of that quota. Prime purpose of the legislation was to hold the 1934 cotton crop down to 10,000,000 bales...
...Daniel Bale came back to Gettysburg from the West to bury his grandfather. No Copperhead but an inconsistent pacifist, Bale had done his share of Indian fighting but refused to have anything to do with the Civil War. He settled down in his grandfather's house, prepared to have a quiet time for a while, in spite of his neighbor's nudges. Two events shattered his peace. First, a friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford...
...Bale had his job cut out for him. He disguised himself in blue trousers taken from a Federal corpse, joined a Confederate night attack on Culp's Hill. At dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line...