Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curb the State's wild oil production. For 28 days the Legislature shilly-shallied, got nothing done. Meanwhile in Oklahoma Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray called out troops to shut in oil wells until the price of oil should reach $1 per bbl. (TIME, Aug. 17.) Taking cue from his neighbor, Governor Sterling last week roweled his Legislature into action one day before adjournment with a threat of martial law. To show he meant it he sent his adjutant general into the gushing East Texas fields to find quarters for 1,000 troopers. Twelve hours later the Legislature...
Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane saw the pictures, wrote an editorial about them. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner took the cue, arranged to have Acting Corporal Garland E. Cain of Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111. make a similar set of pictures, using two cameras, one painted white so that Corporal Cain would know which to start on when the other was empty. Last week the Herex printed a full page of its pictures-excellent pictures, but not quite so good as the Germans', possibly because Corporal Cain had to think about pulling the ripcord of his 'chute, whereas...
...rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...
...work in connection with this League and the European Commission. "We can only express the hope that he may be long with us to guide us, lead us, advise and inspire us." At this roar from the British Lion, the other animals in the League Ark took their cue, applauded. Square Head? Dr. Julius Curtius, smooth-shaven German Foreign Minister -the man whose policy of Austro-German Zollverein (customs union) dealt such a blow to M. Briand's presidential chances -conferred privately with Chairman Briand before the Commission...
...time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...