Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic fact back of what was already being referred to as the "Belisha Purge" was that despite two years of furious rearming by Great Britain, production of heavy machine guns, tanks and artillery is way behind, there is a deficit of 12,000 men in the Army's authorized strength, and the General Staff is as knee deep in red tape...
...from uncivilized are the natives, for, in their disdain of modern conveniences and the furious speed of polo-shirted tourists, they flaunt a sophistication far more tangible than the bored expression of those who have lived a life of smiles and champagne--theirs is a sophistication sprung from the steaming earth, the planting of their crops, and the legends of their ancestors and their ancestors' gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious...
Died. Captain James Vallely, 83, detective; in Houston, Tex. In Buffalo, on the night of Sept. 6, 1901, Vallely was called from his office to the Temple of Music where President McKinley had just been shot. He found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...
...Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., which dominated Colorado's northern coal fields. Josephine Roche turned the company into a laboratory for the social theories she had developed during 17 years she had spent in social work. She also ran it so efficiently that, in spite of high wages and furious competition from other Colorado mine owners who distrusted her methods, it became the most profitable coal company in the State...
...Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme to help keep traders up-to-the-minute on trading...