Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost overnight last week a little, suppressed idea burst upon the nation as a full-fledged legislative movement. The little idea: that the U. S. pay its World War Veterans their adjusted-compensation certificates (commonly called "The Bonus") in cash...
Then, fortnight ago, the American Legion reversed its stand and came plumping out for the bill (TIME, Feb. 2). Forthwith Mr. Patman got some more signatures. Also a storm of counter and compromise proposals burst in both House and Senate. Three proposals stood out: 1) to pay the present value; 2) to pay the present value plus 25%; 3) to increase the present loan or collateral value up to 50% of the face value...
Last week, however, one of the marching motormakers suddenly became conspicuous. He was 36-year-old President Errett Lobban Cord of Auburn Automobile Co. and Cord Corp. Abruptly he burst from the slow-moving ranks, raced down the road with unprecedented speed, shouted great tidings of Auburn prosperity...
...Angeles hospital last week a Mrs. Maude Branton, 43, clergyman's wife, inhaled ether, oxygen and nitrous oxide as anesthetic for an operation. This mixture of gases is explosive. In Mrs. Branton's case something ignited the mixture in her lungs. The mixture exploded, the lungs burst, Mrs. Branton died. A coroner's jury decided that no one was to blame...
...followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when its second plane crashed, burst into flame, sank with its entire crew of four. General Balbo learned their fate by radio, but he led on. Nothing was to be gained by turning back, after 14 months intensive rehearsal for this very moment. Moreover, before leaving Orbetello, near Rome, the handsome young air minister had told...