Word: bog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crossing a Swedish bog during an elk-hunt, a royal Swedish horse lost its footing, sank, threw 77-year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...
...Flynn, ably impersonated by swashbuckling George Houston, does not care particularly which side he fights on so long as he is in the fray. His worldly assets, he believes, are his Castle Famine and a motley handful of loyal bog-trotters. There are tales that the castle is the hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount...
...inflation talk jiggled the stockmarket into the first million-share day in weeks. Prices rounded out a month-long rise from the year's low in September, and Wall Street approached cheerfulness. Steel was a few steps out of the bog. Electric power production topped the 1933 line for the first time in six weeks. Loans to businessmen swelled another $34,000,000. bringing the total expansion since the middle of August...
...manufacturers promised to keep their prices on quality lines stable, if the retailers would do the same. They even designated how much profit the retailer should make-sometimes as high as 50%. Result was that, while other members of the clothing industry were foundering 1 the red-ink bog, the corset and brassiere makers marched quietly along at an amazingly stable pace...
...Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed by less than a degree its all-time top torridity. Flushed and groggy, schoolchildren were sent home in Des Moines and Minneapolis...