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Word: powder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 21 Powder Brookline, N.H. N.H. Fair Good 14 Powder Cansan, N.H. Fair Good 19 14 over 5 unb. cr. Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 67 5 inch new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 18 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 4 New Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 48 5 inch new powder Fryeburg, N.H. Fair Good 23 Dry Powder Greenfield, N.H. Fair Good 12 4 inch powder Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 19 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 20 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 21 4 Dry over powder Lancaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIING CONDITIONS | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

...cloak rooms of the Capitol Congressmen goggled last week over a tidbit of information that came out of their hearings on National Defense. Last May when the War Department was short $3,300,000 to purchase machinery to make smokeless powder for the Army, rich, patriotic Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch made an offer to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson to put up the money from his own pocket. Financed instead by a Congressional appropriation recommended by the President, the machinery is now nearly complete. An obstacle to this generosity: such gifts to the U. S. require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriotic Offer | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...People's Ratty, selling Mennen's shaving cream, talcum powder, et al. to Sunday afternooners on MBS's nine-station network, is a weekly cross-patter of sense and nonsense run by veteran Commentator John B. (for Bright) Kennedy in a 192-seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Voice of the People | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 Powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 46 New powder Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 13 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Snowing Good 5 Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Good 29 New powder Fryeburg, Mc. Cloudy Good 13 7 in. powder Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair Light snow Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Fair 4 to 13 in. in trails Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 12 5 in. dry over crust Lincoln, N.H. Snowing Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIING CONDITIONS | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

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