Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AUGUST FAST...
...failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana was roaring that the poor farmers had been betrayed, said he would keep roaring until midnight, killing...
...matricide, who indignantly refused President Pats's poison cup and was hanged. Second was Paul Voigemast, 24, a laborer convicted of raping and murdering a middle-aged schoolteacher. Thoughtful Paul Voigemast reserved decision, entered into a long correspondence with the faculty of Dorpat University on the subject of fast-working, pleasant poisons. Finally Paul Voigemast chose a cup of diluted potassium cyanide. Last week he was led to the death chamber, offered the cup. His hand took it steadily. Without expression, he drained it, shuddered, took in one long hissing breath, fell down dead, all within the required five...
...Francisco last week two Phillips chemists, Wayne Zerley Friend and Theodore W. Legatski, had cheerful words to say about two by-product gases, propane and butane, which are easily liquefied for tank car shipment and are in fast-growing use as a low-cost fuel for stationary engines, switching locomotives, tractors, trucks and buses. These two, mixed with oxygen, are cheaper than acetylene as a fuel for welding torches. Since they vaporize easily, they are good refrigerants. Some consumers use the same gallon of propane first as a chemical solvent, next as a refrigerant, finally burn...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...