Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair grounds a dummy marked HENRY WALLACE was soundly spanked by three stout rustics with barrel staves...
...Under the oil code Texas and Oklahoma last week whittled down their production quotas and Secretary Ickes, hopeful of maintaining the basic Midcontinent price of $1.11 a barrel for crude oil (set three weeks ago), warned producers against cheating under express threat of exercising his "drastic powers." Meanwhile Nature, with a more powerful threat, endangered again the best laid plans of oilmen for keeping down production: in Anderson County, Tex., gushed the discovery well of a new oil field...
...story the Nazi prosecution could present in Leipzig this week. Dr. Paul Herz, onetime secretary to the Social Democratic Party in the Reichstag, claimed that the incendiaries could not have entered the Reichstag except through a tunnel leading from the official residence of the Reichstag President, Prussia's barrel-chested Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring. A onetime Police President of Berlin testified that 1,500 arresting warrants were ready for use immediately after the fire. Liberal Editor Georg Bernhard and Social Democrat Chairman Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid agreed that the Nazis were the only party that could have benefited...
...Walt Disney's Silly Symphony, the technicolor short which, held over in Manhattan ever since its appearance last spring (TIME, June 5), is still talk-of-the-town. The big, bad wolf came, a frightful shaggy fellow with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song until audiences knew it by heart...
...borrow up to 10% of assessed value of city property, has managed over the course of years to pile up a per capita debt of $206.74 (five times that of Chicago)-for borrowing was the easiest way for Tammany to provide plenty of pork for the city pork barrel without arousing citizens by putting high taxes higher or making the working man pay more than 5? for the world's longest subway ride. Last spring came the season of reckoning. The banks grew niggardly of further loans, the market value of the city's bonds began to slip...