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...prowling Federal searchlight stopped to glare at 16 corporations, 36 individuals. The most glaring searchlight of its kind ever to be directed against big U. S. businesses, it challenged them for conspiring to divert industrial alcohol into bootleg alcohol...
...weather for their hop to Denmark; in Hillig's words, "just a couple of immigrants going home." Few days after the "immigrants" start, beauteous Socialite Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded by the glare. Miss Nichols overshot the field, nosed over, badly damaged the landing gear of her plane, escaped serious injury. But flyers and their fates held scant concern for St. John that day. For in the forenoon fire broke out on the town's busy waterfront, swept through blocks of piers...
...late look at the ice-battered Viking. Flames flared from the ship. Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears. The Viking had exploded, was blazing. By the ship's dancing glare the woman saw those things coming toward her. Some skipped from block to block. Some crawled. Some rolled into the water. Two days later some 60 seamen succeeded in crossing the broken ice, in reaching the radio station's shelter...
...ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When the other inmates heard the bursts of fire, they united in one great long groan...
...Pilsudski, complete with private car and sword, was in 1927, when he flabbergasted professionally peaceful Geneva. Arriving in full panoply at the League of Nations Secretariat, Poland's Dictator made for the League Council room, soon confronted Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister of Lithuania, fixed him with a baleful glare...