Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trucks instead of five. Three thousand strikers threw themselves fiercely into battle. At times the fighting extended as far north as Pacific Street, the old "Barbary Coast," but police, in pig-snouted gas masks, rounded up the rioters and drove them South of the Slot. Commuters to Oakland bound for the Ferry House and crossing the Embarcadero on the viaduct from Market Street saw the battle from above, felt the sting of tear gas, the impact of missiles...
...because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile run in France's sport-event-of-the-year...
Last week President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Secretaries of War, Commerce and the Treasury to set up in U. S. ports "free trade zones," composed of docks and warehouses carefully fenced off from the rest of the tariff-bound U. S. There vessels will unload their goods and store them for reshipment without any customs formalities. Four such free zones may be established, one at New York, another elsewhere on the Atlantic coast, one at a Gulf port, one at a Pacific port...
Next day Editor Powell printed in the Times his own story of his inspection tour. He told how he had stopped at the bound ary of U. S. Steel property to make notes and sketches. Excerpts...
...pepper in the U. S. but Ben Smith would like to see one. This was not the first time that Ben Smith had warmed up to a commodity. Early in Depression when all other prices were melting, the hard-eyed Manhattan Irishman turned to the one thing that was bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect the Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth...