Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly. The White artillery "bracketed" by dropping one shell behind and another in front of the Red trench, got the range and then blew Reds methodically to bits until survivors ran up white flags...
...will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman Winchester last week: "This year sales should run 15% to 20% higher, depending largely on the course that local legislation takes in restricting highway freight traffic...
...Communist Party, whose single stronghold is New York City, lost its place on New York State's ballot by failing to roll up the required 50,000 votes for its candidate for Governor. The Red President nominee, Earl Browder, ran 5,000 votes behind his gubernatorial ticket-mate in the State. His national total was some 57,000, down 46,000 from...
This week Hearst's Universal Service and the New York Times were both sure they had the inside track on the Simpson story, but their tracks ran in opposite directions...
...Oklahoma three weeks ago a half-dozen jailbirds ran away from prison to escape sterilization provided by law. In California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...