Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents and in which all records since the Berlin system of point scoring was introduced in 1916 had been broken, Brocardo & Georgetti kept...
...second last book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
...industry. Its guaranteed circulation of 12,500 is frequently exceeded by 50% or 75% if weather is fair on Monday, when legions of urchins rush forth with bundles of the week's edition, leaping from running board to running board of cabs in the city's traffic jam. In 1928 Taxi Weekly gave birth to a national edition, addressed to all U. S. taxicab companies, now reaching 4,000 readers...
...Police from the State's Attorney's office raided the Biltmore Athletic Club. Next day Lingle told an official: "That raid put me in a fine jam. I told these fellows to go ahead and run. Of course, I didn't suppose they were going to go like a house afire." That was three days before the murder...
...budget afternoon last week the great leaders of British banking, shipping and industry left their offices and jostled each other in the distinguished visitors' gallery of the House, or the Peers' gallery if their rank entitled them to that eminence. Noticed in the distinguished jam was Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and in the packed Peers' gallery Baron Kylsant, chairman of the Royal Mail Line, White Star Line and associated companies, largest shipping combine on earth...