Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop of rain fell on his head, to have been revived only when two buckets of sand were thrown in his face...
...single line of battle, and from the Hood's chartroom Admiral Bailey himself set the course for both ships: 254 degrees for the Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently he thought that without further orders the Hood would swing into the "projected course" and the Renown would drop into line behind her. Instead both captains kept their ships doggedly on the courses set by Admiral Bailey until too late to avoid a $200,000 collision between the two star capital ships of the Royal Navy...
Captain Tower of the Hood, acquitted by the court martial, was also called "not without blame." If he had put his ship on the "projected course," the Renown would have been able to drop safely in behind. Finally last week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral...
...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...
...from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock Exchange, to the grain market in Chicago. When the Cotton Exchange's big bronze bell closed trading at 3 o'clock, cotton had suffered its worst break since 1927, with a maximum drop of 1.85? per lb. ($9.25 per bale). Next day it opened around...