Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession, ignited the bulletin board and a feather-stuffed couch...
...boxes. Suddenly snipers, whom the Government later branded as Communists, began a random reckless fire from the rooftops which at first crackled over the heads of the Communists and soldiers. Instantly soldiers began to fire, some kneeling and shooting directly into the Communist ranks. Only a sudden burst of tropical rain cut short what might have been a massacre, but two hours later firing began again...
...depositors in closed banks with $3,000,000,000 in "greenbacks." The Iowa Farmers' Union was ranting for inflation and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's scalp because he refused to believe that inflation was a cureall. Even conservative members of the Administration were recommending a quick burst of paper money as the only practical way of silencing the inflationary clamor. "'I am unexcited and intend to remain so," President Roosevelt, up from a sick bed, told callers who asked him what he proposed to do about the currency. But by the end of the week...
Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
...insurance in force, Missouri Life has been in hot water for some months. Rogers Clark Caldwell, Tennessee's meteoric financier, bought a 29% interest in it during the gay 1920's, sold his interest to Inter-Southern Insurance Co. When the Caldwell bubble burst, the Missouri State stock passed to Kentucky Home Life, last year was bought back by Herbert Hoover's friend Julius Howland Barnes, chairman of Insuran-shares Corp. Then it transpired that Missouri Life itself had guaranteed a loan of $800,000 to make the purchase possible...