Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
...storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds that it will be a severe economic shock and result in declines because our favorable export trade is dependent on a cheap dollar, which will then be a thing of the past. Again...
...children's truck passed Boss Bruno's house two shots pinged over the crowd. Then machine-gun bullets volleyed from three sides of Bruno's Corner into the jampacked ranks of the marchers. In a minute it was over. By the ruddy light of torches a priest was giving final absolution, his voice rising and falling through the shrieks of women and children. It began to rain...
...starting gun there were cheers for Balko. He was husking in his own State and in a familiar stand of corn. His rivals went down their rows ahead of him, but Balko was picking his corn carefully, husking it clean...
After 80 minutes the finish gun boomed. The judges declared Husker Balko the winner. He got $100 and a gold watch. Second place ($50) went to South Dakota's champion, Richard Anderson, who barely beat out Nebraska's Harry Brown for third place...