Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...
...like an egg about to be hatched. The J-3 was sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three enlisted men. A Coast Guard amphibian picked up the blimp's commander, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins, but he was beyond revival. The body of Machinist's Mate Pasquale Bettio...
...grade) of tires for chain stores and mail-order houses to market at cut-rate prices. Mr. Firestone also makes third and fourth grade tires but chiefly to enable his dealers to compete. So did Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none of it. It would be an admission of defeat in his long, long joust with the mail-order tire...
Britons learned last week how far gone was sick British shipping when famed old Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. reported a $3,000,000 net loss for 1932, a $2,000,000 drop in North Atlantic traffic. Four days prior. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had prescribed a cure in the House of Commons: an "arrangement" between Cunard & White Star. He set it as a condition to government subsidies to help Cunard finish its giant ship No. 534, now an idle skeleton in a Scotch shipyard. Everybody knew White Star was suffering as badly as Cunard from...
First committee room leak: the bill will cost U. S. consumers $800,000,000 per year. "But," explained Secretary Wallace, "that's only a drop in the bucket if prosperity is restored...