Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only upon the warriors that the Italian Government has made war. It has above all attacked populations far removed from hostilities in order to terrorize and exterminate them. . . . Special sprayers were installed on board aircraft so they could vaporize over vast areas of territory a fine, death-dealing rain. Groups of nine, 15 or 18 aircraft followed one another so that the fog issuing from them formed a continuous sheet. It was thus that, as from the end of January 1936, soldiers, women, children, cattle, rivers, lakes and pastures were drenched continually with this deadly rain. In order to kill...
...bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge, those tiny particles were driven into the steel wires, wedging apart the fine crystals of the annealed steel, causing the wire to snap. Coarse-grained, cold-drawn steel wire was found to resist this minute destructive process...
...degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts across a corner of Honduras into Nicaragua. In that country the 214 miles of Inter-American Highway are universally...
...haywire and he is not infrequently guilty of the gross political sin of tactlessness. To those who do not like him he is an egotist, unable to play second fiddle to anyone else, tied to Governor Landon only by their mutual self-interest. To his admirers he is a fine fellow, unquestionably loyal, in spite of a hard-shell political past; to Governor Landon and Liberalism, a bright new blade of energy and vigor who will lead his Party to far better success than all the butter-knife minds who for a decade have been running the Republican show...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...