Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Profits in excess of the dividend rate and a 2% amortization reserve would revert from the State corporation to the State and from the National Corporation to the U. S. This money would go into a special fund. With a flash of hope or irony Commissioner Anderson suggested that these funds be "used for educational purposes, especially as to the evils resulting from the use of alcoholic beverages and for the eradication of those conditions which cause excessive drinking...
What did Herr Adolf Hitler's Fascist flash-in-the-pan (TIME, Aug. 25, et seq.) cost Germany? This question Teuton economists answered last week with a tentative, staggering figure: 1,600,000,000 marks...
...huge All-American tackle, Fred Sington. tore off his sweater, rushed onto the field; with him came Backfielders Cain, Suther, Campbell. In a few minutes Jimmy Moore slid in from the end as though in a reverse, took the ball from Campbell, tossed it far down the field to Flash Suther, who had no one to stop him. Eberdt intercepted a Washington State pass and in two plays the Tide had another score. Then Campbell broke through right tackle and got away. The second period was not over yet but the game was won. Essentially a defensive team, the ponderous...
...nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago...
...Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing stars surrounded by an electric display." Said she: "I thought of the Star of Bethlehem." Scientist Francis Baker Laney...