Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference failed, wheat men were conscious that the world's wheat elevators are bulging with last year's surplus and that out of the earth was already springing another monster crop, another incubus. Too discouraged to tear their hair, Chicago wheat pit traders estimated quietly last week that North America will close 1931 with a surplus of one billion bushels-beyond all comparison the all-time record...
...onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that bottomless pit that is every puppy dog's stomach...
...null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then nine, were finally put at seven, with two other men perhaps fatally burned. In the past fortnight 19 men have lost their lives in eastern Texas oil well fires...
Wheat prices in the Chicago pit slumped sensationally...
...which now stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster, but he did not engage seriously in aviation until 1924. He founded Pit cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail...