Word: plunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserve in Louisiana's Lafourche Parish. This week in California Barnsdall prepared to bring in a well called Rancho San Francisco No. i which may open up the biggest oil pool discovered in the U. S. since East Texas six years ago. What was more, the well was plunk in the centre of a 6,000-acre lease owned by Barnsdall alone. The new well is seven miles from Newhall in Los Angeles County, six miles from the spot where a dozen people were killed in last December's crash of a San Francisco-to-Los Angeles United...
...Chicago the polls opened at 6 a. m. In four precincts boxes were ordered confiscated when found half-filled with ballots before 6 a. m. Three hours later Henry Horner rolled off to the nearest polling place to plunk down one vote for Henry Horner. Other Horner voters, charged the Governor's staff, were being bought off, slugged and kidnapped by Kelly toughs. From their headquarters rushed Horner's brown-clad State troopers to rescue Horner supporters from Kelly policemen...
...barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff by inches as spectators screamed and scattered. "God save the King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials: "I saw it from a window. I thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard by Marble Arch, Their Majesties inspected London's new est luxury hotel, The Cumberland...
...into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon as it floated up and westward over the Loop. After ten minutes it ceased to rise. Then it began to fall. Down, down it came, skimming the sheds in the Burlington & Quincy Railroad yards at 14th & Canal Streets. Plunk!-it landed on the tracks, barely missing the head of a yardman and scaring him out of his wits. In a few minutes a crowd of thousands jammed the yards. "Get those cigarets away!" shouted Commander Settle, who had pulled the ripcord to empty the bag of hydrogen. Except for a dent...