Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Favorite Son for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936, ran for the Senatorial nomination this year against Supreme Court Judge Arthur Day. Best issue Campaigner Day could dig up was that Campaigner Taft was trying to buy his way into politics with "the Taft millions."* Result: Taft...
...Verne W. Harshman, naval aviator on maneuvers off the coast of Colombia in 1931, was forced down by bad weather, kept afloat on his CO2-filled raft five days. Only trouble he encountered was sharks, which were attracted by the raft's color (orange-yellow for high visibility). Result: the navy changed the color of life-rafts' bottoms to olive drab...
Last week, a high over the southeastern States spread hot moist air from the Gulf of Mexico across the eastern half of the U. S. and southern lows simultaneously moved farther north than usual. Result: a predominance of hot and damp southern air. One good low, traveling across the country, would have attracted cooler air from Canada, but instead of enjoying cool Canadian breezes, the U. S. was treated to an uninterrupted outpouring of subtropical...
...longer to receive further refugees without upsetting the equilibrium of her social structure." M. Bérenger cried: "The hunting of a man, confiscation of his property, a concentration camp beyond which there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between nations!" Such language was not calculated to soothe Adolf Hitler, whose help would be most useful in getting Jews out of Germany. Already forbidden to take money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their...
...miles from Edinburgh. Last week Anglo-American made its first shipment (2,000 gal.) from Dalkeith to its refinery at Purfleet on the Thames. It took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable in Diesel engines without refining, the oil yields 12% gasoline, 12% kerosene...