Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a sincere, plodding individualist who votes with the Progressives, of more than average intelligence, a man whose cumbersome mannerisms make him seem far duller than he is. He will not be unhappy if his constituency retires him to his beloved farm at Hoople. His term expires...
...cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
...badman and bank robber. Born in Georgia, raised in the Ozarks, Floyd in 1925 began a model training for crime: five years in the Missouri Penitentiary for highway robbery. Later he was largely responsible for the fact that Oklahoma country banks at that time paid the highest robbery insurance rate in the country. In one year he killed two Government informers in Kansas City, a Federal agent, a policeman. Last year he was spotted as the man who led the Kansas City massacre in Union Station during which four officers and their prisoner were machine-gunned to death...
...Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy" in Anna Christie, stealing the show from Greta Garbo. A first-rate star for the second time in her life, she was voted the nation's most popular cinemactress, scored other hits in Tugboat Annie, Min and Bill, Dinner at Eight...
Bubonic plague is called the Black Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...