Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops now embarking for Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini is placing huge grain orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...wheat farmers are to receive participating certificates entitling them to share in the Board's profits, if any. More important than these provisions is the declaration of a new policy of "continuous sale" of wheat. The Board is specifically forbidden to hoard grain or conduct stabilization operations. It must pour its holdings, old and new, into the export market as speedily and profitably as possible, "at any price" it can get. Since the pool's holdings are 226,000,000 bu. and since another 250,000,000 bu. surplus will be coming in from this year's crop, the worst...
...spark plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
...next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean linguist, the professor realized to his shame that they were crying, "Look! He hasn't got any! Look! He hasn't got any!" This had never happened before, and our hero blushed a deep crimson, and kept on washing. "All giants," an unwashed monk later told him, "according to the local...
Rich uncles of U. S. education, the great Foundations pour out their millions of dollars each year through funnels pointed at trouble spots in the educational system. Pedagogs, ever eager to see what the Foundations consider trouble spots, last week thumbed through the annual report of the General Education Board, affiliate of the Rockefeller Foundation. That most generous of all the educational Foundations, they discovered, was pointing a big funnel at the senior high school, the junior college...