Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traders were jumpy at reports that the House of Representatives was about to abolish the Farm Board, thus throwing its 125,000,000-bu. holdings suddenly on the market. The stock market had been declining heavily all week. Bears dumped selling orders into the Chicago pit. After closing time in Chicago, double news arrived from Washington: 1) The House had voted (152-to-23) against liquidating the Farm Board; 2) the Department of Agriculture prophesied its drastic cut in the winter crop. Informal trading spurted on the curb outside the Chicago Board of Trade, with shorts covering at any price...
...overtime play to settle a 3-10-3 tie, Bun Cook of the Rangers made a goal on a pass from his brother Bill.* The Rangers won the third game 1 to 0. By this time, two of the Canadiens best forwards, Aurel Joliat (left wing) and Pit Lepine (alternate center) had been injured enough to keep them out of the rest of the series...
...inch, Dr. Magrath affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here abrasions which a long series of tests showed to coincide with those of the murderer's bullet...
...nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...
...last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken out and dusted for this occasion) have been discovering for themselves,--that nearly everything is liumbug, and that nothing remains today for most of us but a bottomless pit...