Word: flames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen politely. But he will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat area where thousands of steelworkers dwell. The bank was established 21 years ago, and there...
...left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot Horst Merz, well aware that thousands of gallons of gasoline lay in the deep bottom tanks, seized fire extinguishers and attacked the great tower of flame that shot from the wing. They quenched it without the aid of volunteers who came scurrying across the bay in small boats from the Portuguese naval air station...
Died. Clare Jenness Eames, 34, actress (Declassee, Hedda Gabler, Candida, The Sacred Flame), onetime wife of Playwright Sidney Howard (she played in his Swords, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Lucky Sam McCarver) ; after several operations; in London. She was a niece of Mme Emma Eames De Gogorza, famed opera singer, and of Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, wife of Silencer-inventor Maxim...
Vagabonds will remind few readers of Author Hamsun's earlier books; its people are neither monumental peasant types nor furious eccentrics, but ordinary voting citizens. Hamsun's 71-year-old creative energy is burning with a low blue flame...
...fantastic mineral. The Eskimos thought that cryolite, which means "frost stone," was a mysterious kind of ice. It looks like ice, melts readily in a candle flame into something which especially puzzled Eskimos because it is not water. Found in Greenland, cryolite is a compound of fluorine, sodium and aluminium, is used commercially as a flux in smelting aluminium...