Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called electrum. Why not, urged the rememberers of this fact, create an "Electrum Standard?" Instead of pegging silver legally to gold at 16 to 1 why not fuse the two metals, create new world coinage? Responsible banking opinion everywhere last week treated electrum talk as September madness...
...kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...
Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...
...only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet to a desire which has been nurtured in the last two battered and darkened "El" cars in which he has ridden, a desire to pound the man who blows out the first fuse. He hopes he pounds the right one tonight if opportunity occurs...
...most exciting Russian experience during the revolution was sitting up at night for three months in the Embassy with a pistol in his hand guarding $5,000,000 worth of platinum to be smuggled into Britain to make fuse points for shells...