Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italian planes last week neither bombed the railroad, nor any important Ethiopian town, apparently under orders to save money. Many of the light bombs dropped previously failed to explode. In one village several nosey Ethiopians were blown to bits by banging a dud against a rock...
...York, Michigan, Vermont, Maryland, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania lately some 100 miles of experimental clay and gravel roads treated with rock salt (ice-cream freezer kind) have been laid. After several months' use by fairly heavy traffic the salted roads are standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard...
...year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
Whippet tanks were the peak of each column. Then came a fan-shaped formation of red-fezzed Askaris carrying auto-matic rifles, searching every inch of the ground for pitfalls, every rock for snipers. Then the main advance: infantrymen in single file slogging along the gutters and the centres of the rude roadways jammed with trucks, caissons, field pieces, and long lines of swaying supercilious camels. Labor battalions, stripped to the waist, were mixed right in with the marching men. As the infantry advanced they sprang to work building roads for the heavy trucks to follow, singing...
When Flaxie & Dan tried and failed again, their owner threw down his hat and gave up hope. Then lanky Russell Sando drove out the Statler Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding...