Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed. They hope to have rubles to burn, and for each burned ruble there will be that much deflation. But there was one flaw in the bright new plan last week. The Government, having switched from cards to stores, raised most prices 50%. This may or may not choke off the expected rush of buyers. If it seems to choke too hard, the State will prevent strangulation by lowering prices. German banks, who do a little bootleg business in rubles,* reported last year that they were getting batches of Soviet banknotes all bearing the same serial number. Naturally the holder...
...automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford car. The pilot sits at the wheel, flips a conventional Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses his heel on an ordinary Ford starter button, pulls out a Ford choke rod, shifts his feet to-instead of a rudder bar-a set of pedals like the old Ford transmission pedals, yanks with his left hand a Ford brake lever that locks both wheels, or brakes either one for ground-steering. Because the engine and propeller are far separated from the cabin...
...modernization of a great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
...Skinners last week denounced this story as an absolute lie. They said Argo held Mrs. Skinner for 30 minutes, started to choke the 10-month-old Skinner child when it cried out. All Chickasha's officials and white citizens believe the Skinners...
...Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo's seconds to rub irritants into Bombo's eyes and choke him between rounds. The California Commission revoked Camera's license-to-fight indefinitely. New York revoked it permanently...