Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such scattered strikes as these in the past fortnight were the final sputters of a fuse which for two months has been burning slowly but inevitably toward a major charge of maritime dynamite. Last week the explosion finally came. Led by Longshoreman Harry Bridges, 37,000 men of seven unions affiliated with the powerful Maritime Federation of the Pacific started a general waterfront walkout on the Pacific Coast...
...fuse of Author March's time-bomb burns down slowly. Written in a slow, subdued prose that sometimes suggests that of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes that of William Faulkner in his less melodramatic moments, The Tallons is the work of a novelist whose increasingly powerful talent most alert readers will want to watch. Born in Mobile, Ala. in 1894, William March, whose real name is William E. March Campbell, published his first novel, Company K, three years ago, followed it with a strong but uneven study of the psychological effects of a lynching in Come in at the Door. Educated...
Meantime a highly emotional fuse was stuck in an already explosive situation with the development of a sensational waterfront murder case. For the killing of a freighter engineer in San Francisco last April, police last week arraigned four suspects, announced that one of them had confessed committing the crime on Union orders. To the defendants' defense rushed the I. L. A., trumpeting: 'There shall not be another . . . frame-up like the case of Mooney and Billings...
...livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This...
...Franklin Institute award in 1914, he proceeded to make Atwater Kent synonymous with good electrical equipment on the pre-War U. S. automobile. Self-starters and lighting systems followed logically. By 1917 Atwater Kent was big enough to get special Army orders for precision war tools like fuse setters, machine-gun sights...