Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traffic improvements will depend on the zoning of buildings" reads a report recently submitted to the Harvard Engineering School and the Albert Russel Erskine Traffic Research Bureau, by three students, H. F. Hammond, L. E. McClintock, and D. G. Mickie. After visiting 15 cities, travelling on Sheldon Fellowships, they drew up a report of the information gathered with a view to formulating an ideal city planning scheme...
Spending to fulfill the Five-Year Plan has exceeded all estimates. With a throb of triumph in his powerful voice, Orator Molotov drew cheers from his audience by stating that whereas the Government had planned to spend only $23,250,000,000 on the Five-Year Plan it will have spent by next year $27,000,000,000, the original scope of the Plan having, of course, been much enlarged. "We shall yet fulfill the Five-Year Plan in four years!" cried Premier Molotov. Twenty times in this part of his speech he repeated his pet word, "we shall organize...
...other Yankees, First Baseman Gehrig told about the trip: "The enthusiasm of the Japanese just about borders on the fanatical. . . . Never had I seen anything like it even in our biggest championship years at the Stadium. The six games in Tokyo were like a world series . . . each one drew between 55,000 and 60.000. . . . The gates had to be locked at 10:30. Never had I seen such happy jovial crowds...
...engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs in Toronto and New York to pay for the keep of himself and his plane. After long, secret tests he hopped for Jamaica to begin a desperate bid for enough fame to rehabilitate...
While he did so, Miss Ghose and Miss Chowdhuri drew automatic pistols from their schoolgirl saris (shawls) and foully murdered Magistrate Stevens by pumping his chest full of lead at point blank range. A British orderly who dashed in was wounded in the hand by one of the schoolgirls last shots. Perfectly composed, they were locked up in the local British jail...