Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unheard of transposition of Chicago tactics to quiet Cambridge brought to light the fact that about a week ago Coach Eddie Casey was the victim of a similar disturbance. In Casey's case the bomb did not go off until the head coach, accompanied by his wife, was half way home on the road to Winthrop. Both Mr. and Mrs. Casey thought it expedient to vacate the car. After waiting half an hour Casey ventured to start the automobile, but Mrs. Casey would not consent to enter the vehicle until the coach had promised to drive slowly. The rest...
...These were rushed to the Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern University. Presently United Air Lines announced its findings: The crash was caused by a high explosive. The blast occurred probably in the lavatory cabinet where blankets were stored. Whether the explosive was a bottle of nitroglycerine or a time bomb, analysts could...
...last year a Washington. D. C. undertaker named John T. Rhines wanted to board an Eastern Air Transport plane in Atlantic City. According to Undertaker Rhines, he was refused: not because he was carrying a bomb, not because he was intoxicated, but because he was a Negro. Last week Undertaker Rhines sued...
...twin-motored Navy flying boats skittered across the blue waters of Norfolk Harbor one afternoon last week, took off in perfect formation and bored south. Each was manned by two officers, four enlisted men. Each was completely equipped with machine guns and bomb racks. Around the airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau...
...days later someone snapped an electric light switch in the joint office of Chiropractors Charles Baumler and Peter J. Barbour. Two bombs attached to the light system splintered the office, injuring Dr. Barbour and four patients. In an adjoining office a typist named Helen Bosland "felt something snap" in her head. Afterwards she complained of severe headaches. One day last week she died, of sinus trouble and heart dilation. Week ago Chiropractor William Cooper was awakened by a baby crying next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard...