Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week a coroner's jury made up of five industrial engineers and a chemistry professor was sworn in over six dead bodies. Then they went out to the city's northwest side to learn, if they could, why a soy-bean processing plant occupying almost a block lay in smoking ruins, with scorched and mangled human flesh still inside. ''Obviously,'' said the coroner, "such an investigation could not be conducted by laymen...
...before Glidden Co.'s Soya Products Division six-story building-once a bootleg brewery-was humming with routine activity. Tons of soy-bean mash seethed in huge vats. An unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat...
...supervisor took an intolerable attitude toward Japanese smugglers who have been operating on so huge a scale that rice-tax receipts at Swatow have fallen from $400,000 per month to $12,000. Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties...
...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch...
Complained she: "I hate to say it and I know some persons who don't like snakes are very nice persons but Mr. Bean was frightened and frightened persons will exaggerate. I do not feel I was guilty of carelessness. I just forgot, simply forgot, to close the door to the cobras' cage after I cleaned it. I couldn't do everything at once. All other snakes that got away were harmless except Bandy-Bandy and I'm sure he went down the drain pipe. The cobra," she added affectionately, "just found the coziest place it could in the whole...