Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another witness for the prosecution was a deaf mute who by finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had...
The jury acquitted the four hillmen of murder. Many a proud Arkansan, indignant at the publicity given such dark doings in the Ozarks, protested widely that they were not typical of their State, cited big city bombings and murder as equally fearful. The acquittal at Mountain View was hailed as...
Already in desperate financial straits, Chicago last week found itself confronted with what amounts to a fine of $176,000,000 as a penalty for diverting much water from Lake Michigan to flush its sewers. In accordance with a U. S. Supreme Court judgment last January that Chicago's...
1) Graduated reduction of water diverted from the present rate of 8,500 to 1,500 cu. ft. per sec. in nine years.
2) Simultaneous construction by Chicago of sewage disposal plants estimated to cost $176,000,000.