Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Primed & pointed was Lawyer Hogan when the oil scandals of the 1920's raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud...
...these mass Russian malnutritions the Dictator is serenely responsible. According to Red lights, his conscience is clear. First, the grain stores of the Red Army must be kept bumper full. Then the Proletariat or urban workers must have next call on Russia's food. If, as often happens, there is not enough food left after the State's forcible food collections to nourish properly the Russians who grew it, then Comrade Stalin must be sorry...
...radically from former models. The V-radiator is narrower and more sloping, the unit fenders are highly contoured in their streamlining, and the windshield not only slopes back steeply, but it also is slightly V-shaped, causing all the forepart of the car to flow smoothly into the body. Bumper, radiator grille, horizontal hood louvres, running board pattern, fittings and spare tire mountings are all new in design. There are also important improvements in body comfort and spaciousness. The wheel-base has been increased to 113 inches, and an even greater increase in body space has been gained by moving...
...Still rationed by card and to be rationed until further notice throughout Russia are meat, potatoes, tea and such luxuries as butter, which at times has been classed in the Soviet Union as a medicine, available only on doctor's prescription. Because Russia has again had a bumper wheat crop, Premier Molotov talked exclusively about that, said nothing of the ruthless Stalin tactics which caused desperate peasants to massacre their cattle and saddled Russia with a meat shortage which will endure for decades...
...Varsity. There is, of course, the perennial problem of finding men for the Freshman team, which is always a difficult task, since so few of the preparatory schools have teams in this more or less obscure sport. But this year there is the promising news that there is a bumper crop of good material and an unusually large supply of candidates. The redoubtable Rene will have a more serious job than usual, but Harvard has almost always come through with a champion in some event and this year should be no exception. BY TIME...