Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which careened past on the road. Lopsided, homemade wooden boxes looking like outhouses on wheels, they usually provoked snarls or sneers from motorists forced to cut out around them. As the automotive industry progressed, trailers remained virtually static. As late as 1932 they were rarities. Then, suddenly, public resistance broke down. All over the U. S. improved trailers rolled onto the highways. Last week as June and the national vacation season simultaneously got under way, trailer manufacture had become by all odds the fastest-growing U. S. industry, with implications of tremendous significance for real estate and housing...
...Ryan served less than a year of that sentence. Evidence was produced connecting him with another bank robbery; he was transferred to Kingston Penitentiary and given 25 years more. Red Ryan served just one year of that sentence. In 1923 with four companions he broke out of jail and into every Canadian paper. Within 15 days he held up a bank in Toronto, fled...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...
...more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged Al Miller was hurled out in front of the grandstands when his front axle broke. His wooden leg was shattered...
...elephants, he was suddenly charged by a bull. His gun jammed. Akeley seized the tusks of the oncoming beast, swung himself between them so that they drove into the ground without touching him. With its trunk the elephant smashed the explorer's nose, laid open his cheek, broke several ribs which punctured his lungs, then was distracted by the native boys and gave chase. During a three-month convalescence in a hospital, Akeley planned all the details of his African hall...