Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were Frederick Rupt, 75, and John Doyle, 70. From their tiny allowances they saved money for a spree, one night last week walked into an Elmsford tavern, split a dozen cans of beer. Near 1 a.m. they were rolling homeward, Frederick Rupt favoring his wooden right leg. They fell afighting and when Frederick Rupt clumped away, John Doyle was lying by the road. Somebody's fist, said a doctor, had fractured his skull, killed him. Frederick Rupt was jailed for manslaughter...
...wife. The passengers did not see wild-eyed young Chabrinovitch take a small bomb from his pocket and knock off its cap against a post. But the chauffeur noticed and stepped on the gas. A small black object hurtled through the air, struck the rear of the car, fell spinning to the street. Then with a roar and a flash the bomb exploded. Several bystanders were injured. The Archduke's aide, riding in the third car, was badly wounded. The time was about...
Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...
Commodities: The commodity price index fell again to 75.6, a new 1939 low. Leading the commodity retreat was wheat, reacting over 3? a bushel from the fading of spring's normal crop scare news. The wheat crop will be short, but 1938's prodigious carryover (153,537,000 bushels, which will reach an estimated 275,000,000 bushels in a month) is hanging over the wheat pit, giving farmers a double loss through a low price on a small crop...
...last week the disaster wagon had practically nothing to do. Then heavy rains fell on Portland. Out roared the "disaster wagon" on its first real job-pumping out a flooded basement. The building: Lipman Wolfe's department store (just across the street from Mr. Frank's store), his biggest competitor...