Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uprising before it reaches the blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil peace...
Near Little Rock, Ark. last fortnight was found a school teacher who had taken to 'legging. Graduate of the University of Arkansas, she gave her name as "Maureen." Said she: "I was paid in county warrants but I could not get them cashed. . I have a drawer full of them. ... A destitute farmer near the school makes and furnishes the whiskey. I retail it for him. . . . Bootlegging isn't as profitable as one would think. But I make a few dollars. Hell, I have to live...
...Dome (gold) Mines 2,196* 1,690* Electric Bond & Share 13,566† 25,050† Hart, Schaffner & Marx 4,015D 2,994D Industrial Rayon 237 683 Stahl-Meyer (meats) 64D 66 United Corp. 13,824 18,445 U.S. Pipe & Foundry 1,273D 1,012 White Rock...
Principal cockfighting centres in the U. S. are at Stevenson and Uniontown. Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; Little Rock; New Orleans; Bartlesville, Okla.; El Paso; Highlandtown, near Baltimore; Memphis; Lexington; the Sierra Game Club in Grass Valley, Calif.; Bismarck, Mo.; Grand Rapids; Newark; Aiken, S. C., where North and South Carolina breeders have been holding interstate mains for two centuries. Because cockfighting, though firmly established and thoroughly organized, needs to be furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount...
...Earth's volume, 99.9% "must forever remain invisible and untouchable." Yet from the indirect evidence of earthquakes, volcanoes, mines, oil wells, igneous rocks on the weathered surface it was possible for Professor Reginald Aid-worth Daly (Harvard) to estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...