Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman of the Department of Markets trailed Driver Simon on a 16-hr. trip with only three brief stops from Long Island City to Pottsville, Pa. and back. Declaring that the law's prime purpose was to stop the practice, not punish the offender, Magistrate Marvin gave Driver Simon a suspended sentence...
...strike, next day the Hudson Motors strike, both on the basis of the Chrysler terms. Once more quasi-peace reigned in the motor industry. But in General Motors plants, where peace was made two months ago, a sort of guerrilla labor war went on in the form of brief, "spontaneous" sit-downs. The workers' willingness to strike at the drop of a hat was best illustrated at the Oldsmobile plant. There one afternoon the day shift finished work ten minutes early. Members of the night shift found them idle, and practical jokers announced they had "sat down." Result...
Died. George Campbell Smith Jr., 45, president of Street &Smith Publications, Inc. (Love Story, Western Story, et al.), grandson of Street &Smith's Founder Francis S. Smith; after brief illness; in Manhattan...