Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
...nightfall Portugal was quiet. Lisbon was under martial law. No one was al lowed on the streets without a safe conduct pass...
...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...
After one week of martial law, Oklahoma production fell to 264,500 bbl. per day, after two weeks was estimated below 120,000 bbl., a drop of more than...
Only field affected by Governor Sterling's martial law was the East Texas pool where production before closing ran up to 738,050 bbl. or almost half of the entire Mid-Continent output. With this field pinched out temporarily and the Oklahoma shut-in, oilmen figured a reduction of 40% in the total domestic supply this week. Governor Sterling was expected to lift martial law after 30 days when the Texas Railroad Commission, under the new conservation law, would prorate Texas oil production...