Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain Socialists or Earl Browder's Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
...sleepy-eyed fish porter trudged through the grimy streets of Manchester. Suddenly a terrific explosion in the mains beneath the street hurled his body into the air. He was killed and his falling body seriously injured a passing postman. Almost at the same moment, Bam! another blast ripped open a street half a mile away. Bam! a third blew up the pavement a few hundred yards further on. Terror-stricken early risers, certain they were being bombed from the air, grabbed gas masks issued during the CzechoSlovak Crisis and rushed into the streets...
...three carloads of Customs men and two launches were patrolling the area by land and sea. A batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...
...product of that excitement, fully described for the first time this week in FORTUNE, is a new process for deriving gasoline from crude oil rather than from lignite. It will not insure France's fuel supply but it seems likely to crack the oil-refining industry as wide open as oil refiners crack crude...
...present Administration is to be commended for a number of steps, including its vigorous attack on soil erosion, its intensive efforts to develop a constructive land policy, and its courageous attempts to open up international trade through reciprocal treaties