Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local Stahlhelm, was walking home with a number of fellow members when they noticed a group of young Communists following them at a distance. The Stahlhelmers ran. took refuge in Heister's house. As Albert Heister turned to bar the front door the enraged Communists fired through the plate glass. Albert Heister slumped slowly to the ground with a bullet through his heart...
...State Bank in Moscow, where they saw the collection of Tsarist jewels and plate and Mr. Shaw handled a crown worth...
...capacity three months ago the rate of steel operations declined steadily week after week until last fortnight, when it stayed at the same level (31%) as the week before. Last week a slight rise, to 33%, was registered, somewhat to the surprise of the statisticians. For tin plate output, long the brightest spot in the steel picture, declined last week: three more blast furnaces (two at Birmingham and one at Chicago) were blown out; the summer decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face...
Under six-month guarantees the faulty sternposts in four cruisers will be made good by the contractors. Cost: $20,000 each. The Navy borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
...Union City, N. J. Laura del Vecchia, 4, tapped on a neighbor's plate-glass window with a stick. A Mrs. Intermaggio, wife of the owner of the window, rushed out and scolded Laura del Vecchia. Laura's grandmother hurried up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio. Laura's father bustled up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio too. Intermaggio arrived; he and Laura's father fought, grappled, crashed through the plate-glass window, had to be taken to a hospital, were arrested, locked up in jail...