Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private utility connection, he said, nor had Accountant Conick, his choice for the job. Mr. Conick is a checker-upper whose firm (Main & Co.) has often been called in to clean up after Pennsylvania politicians, whose findings drove from office Pittsburgh's rapacious mayor, the late Charles H. Kline...
...many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army frontier guards; 3) Changkufeng first emerged from obscurity when a Soviet force occupied it on July 11; 4) Japanese forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position, commanding with its guns a future naval base which the Red Navy hopes to build at nearby Posieta...
...Teruel. Taking advantage of the fact that the Rightists had shipped 40,000 troops from the Teruel area to the Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held Rightist lines in the Universales Mountains. He drove down the Guadalaviar River valley for six miles, to within nine miles of Albarracin, which commands a broad, unfortified plateau leading to Teruel, only 19 miles away...
...announced that a batch of 400 Austrian refugees who had been allowed temporary refuge in the country would be forcibly driven back into Germany at the first opportunity. Working in the dead of night, Czechoslovak police took 15 such refugees to a remote spot on the German border, and drove them over undetected by German frontier guards. Prepared for the worst, the Bureau last week tentatively added 60,000 Italian Jews to its list of potential refugees...
...Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine-gun barrage, Too Tough reared up to her full eight feet, lunged at Zoo Superintendent...