Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skoits, inelegant in the fetid atmosphere of a saloon, but still skoits. Chinamen burn while Chuck Connors' mob fights Steve Brodie's gang for possession of the fire hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
...economy (the Branch's budget was cut from $7,600,000 to $5,200,000) airway radio beacons will not be operated on clear days except on request. For several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
...They still shoot a lot but they don't bring us more than eight or nine corpses a day now. We don't need to burn them in piles any more. I guess today we'll have time to wait and bury these in the cool of the evening...
...Standard Oil has dominated the Chinese oil market ever since its engineers devised a lamp that would burn its brand of kerosene to perfection but, if competing brands were used, would send up such a smoking stench that Chinese were terrified...