Word: crusher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...
...plate was wild. Fidler, on his knees a quarter of the way down the third base line lunged at the ball, and in one motion grabbed it and put it on Heath, who was attempting to hook-slide around him, for the out that proved to be the crusher...
...widened, its houses repaired. The railroad has been converted from narrow to standard gauge; natural gas is tapped in 100 miles from the West Texas pipeline; there are new power and water systems. Besides opening the mine, Phelps Dodge built a 25,000-ton concentrator, a primary and secondary crusher, a larger smelter...
...American Legion struck Isolationism a ruinous blow last week-a ponderous, powerhouse, meat-ax crusher. The repercussions of the Legion's action in its 23rd annual convention would echo for many months in Congress, the press, the homes of U.S. citizens. In convention at Milwaukee the Legion...
Ahead of the lines the Air Force did its work with the steady efficiency of a stone-crusher. Village after village was pulverized. Larissa was pasted until it looked like Louvain in World War I. More than 1,500 Nazi planes were in action in the Balkans...