Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blast. The bomb which on Sept. 16, 1920 pockmarked for all time the front of the House of Morgan, was-so many thought last week-far less damaging to the most powerful banking house in the country than the blast last week in the Chase Bank building. For not only would Mr. Aldrich have the House of Morgan give up the deposits, but also give up its representation on the boards of many great banks on which ten of its 20 members now have seats. The effect on Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co., and other banking houses would be similar...
...correspondent to report from central Jehol was United Press's Herbert R. Ekins. "I saw the real picture of warfare today," he flashed from Lingyuan. "Passing through three lines of Chinese trenches I witnessed three Japanese airplanes flying out of the east circle low. . . . One plane dropped a bomb which exploded with a terrific blast, but, except for ripping a huge crater in the ground, it merely injured a 10-year...
...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...
...aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb the peace of the "Paradise of the Pacific," Oahu fell into hostile hands, and with it the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Imaginative newsmen reported that the Black attack by air had left Honolulu "a shambles." If it had been real war, the Navy would have lost...
...inadvertently visiting relatives in Jersey City, is horribly wounded by gunmen, he adroitly capitalizes the red-hot indignation of her fiancé by making him chief of a federalized police force to root out crime and racketeering. Chicago becomes the scene of siege operations as the Federal "Green Jackets" bomb under-worldlings out of their fortified lairs. Meanwhile Washington has superseded State authority by its power of the purse, and cities are governed by Federal appointees...