Word: poled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away
Branch Banking. Yet even though a bank should pay 100% after it closes, the closing cannot help but cause stress to both depositors and borrowers. Hence the year has been one that has made all serious bankers ponder remedies carefully. John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, has tirelessly reiterated his arguments in favor of larger banks, many branches. Last week he gloomily contemplated the ravages of Depression upon the banking system, and again pleaded with slow-to-change bankers and suspicious Congressmen for the development of branch-banking. Said he: "In brief, the purpose of the legislation recommended...
...came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled its victims with a roaring volley which awakened the sleeping town...
...WILLIAM'S book is written on a theory which, although not accepted by many geologists, is nonetheless interesting. The author gives evidence that the continents have moved to their present position from the South pole at the rate of several feet a century. He then traces the evolution of life from the unicellular animal to the man-ape. "The Biography of Mother Earth" is written in a popular style and admirably illustrated. It gives ample space to explaining the evolution of species through the factors of environment as well as the causes of the extinction of the gigantic reptiles...
...President of the Reichsbank, at Warin, German, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; John Work Garrett, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, at his Baltimore home, with a broken foot suffered when he tripped on a rug; Lieut.-Commander George Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole and transatlantic nights, in Manhattan, of alcoholism and grave injuries suffered when he stepped in the path of a taxicab; Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, following an operation on her foot; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Chicago, of bronchitis; Film Actress Ann Harding, in Jacksonville...