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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Law of Averages, which allowed planes of the Ludington Line to fly 10,000 trips between New York, Philadelphia and Washington without accident, balanced the score with fearful vengeance one day last week. A fast Lockheed Orion of the line crashed and burned at Camden. N. J. killing all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Ludington's First | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Drama in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, assumes the proportions of American tragedy when Theodore Dreiser waves the crusader's flag. Sheriff deputies are paid by the mine owners; houses of strikers are dynamited and burned. Children die, seven or eight per week; nobody is indicted for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARK AND BLOODY GROUND | 11/14/1931 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Harworth he is forced into choosing Molina (who strongly resembles Scarf ace Capone); he finds himself unwilling accessory to a killing, soon realizes that he is caught between the millstones of gang warfare. When Molina falls, Harworth goes with him. If cinema audiences continue to favor gang pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fowler on Fallon | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

The murderer is brought to trial, and the gang's efforts to prevent the Leeds family from testifying takes the form of physical coercion. When the father refuses to be bribed into silence, his child is held hostage. To save the life of the young boy the entire family decide...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: "THE STAR WITNESS" | 10/20/1931 | See Source »

"Investors who buy foreign bonds appreciate what a fruitless remedy for breach of contract war is. Who is there if a man owes him money and cannot pay, finds profit in going out and killing the debtor?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of Morrow | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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