Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey...
...Gorrahei, Italy's advance base on the Southern front last week, bugles blew, whistles shrilled, field telephones jangled all day long. Staff officers beat on their folding desks, demanding action while sergeants stalked about impressively. Sweating squads of half-naked soldiers unloaded dust-coated trucks, then for no apparent reason loaded them up again. Field ambulances rolled through the town. Swarms of airplanes took off for mysterious destinations. Something big was happening over beyond the Shibeli River where the black tribesmen of Ras Desta Demtu, hard-working little son-in-law of Haile Selassie, were hiding in the thorn...
...that he could make more photographs. He took it into a darkroom illuminated only by the red glow of a photographic lantern, arranged his microscope and camera. In shaping the tungsten thread to which the protoactinium clung, he was a little too rough. The delicate element crumbled to invisible dust...
...Wylie -Little, Brown ($2.50). Aid & comfort for the uneasy bourgeois conscience. An Oxford man makes the pilgrimage to Moscow but is happy to get home again. THE LUCK OF THE BODKINS-P. G. Wodehouse-Little, Brown ($2). Steward Peasemarch takes over while Valet Jeeves has a well-earned vacation. DUST OVER THE RUINS-Helen Ashton -Macmillan ($2.50). How to make a dull winter into something worse, or love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus Mann -Knopf ($2.50). Story...
...begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia. The tunnel went through white sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully followed their gangs...