Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
...city. Seven years, some 200 lives and $28,000,000 was the cost of building concrete viaducts across the keys, and in 1912, the year before Flagler died, his trains rumbled into Key West. In 1931 however, the road went into receivership, in 1935 the great Labor Day hurricane blew it to pieces. Last week Founder Flagler's dream was revived, as the roadbed of his railroad was reopened as a motor highway...
...Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew out and wrecked...
...would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing in on Linfeng, temporary provincial capital, which is some 60 miles north of the river...
...this was forgotten as the full force of El Caudillo's war machine rolled closer. To make as short work as possible of the Rightist defense within the city, miners blew the remains of the Bank of Spain branch sky high, burying an unknown number of men, women and children in the debris. Soon the Battle of Teruel became a battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting...