Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norwegian freighter Solviken, seeking to enter Singapore harbor. She headed for a mine field. Whang went a warning shot from a shore battery across her bows, out came a patrol ship to lead Solviken into port...
...present Germany is probably stepping up her [airplane] production rate faster than Britain, France and the United States combined, so that for the next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
...around in Switzerland, meanwhile, waiting to greet the Tool of the Plot, was a 42-year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...
...differentiate between the German and Russian invasion of his country and added that he had no reason to believe that Britain and France take a contrary view. In tune with the new Anglo-French groping toward a European Union, he voiced "hope that the convulsions now shaking Europe will lead to the emergence of the idea of European solidarity...
...dovetailing corners of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma lie the richest lead and zinc beds in the U. S. There a score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...