Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished looking for them. First came the sniffing jackals and pariah dogs. Then fire broke out, burning some. Finally water poured out of the cracked earth, drowning others. From the fast-rotting bodies of the dead, cholera germs fanned out across Quetta. Then the earth began to rock once more, settling the ruins deeper, and a landslide rolled down the nearby Mountain of Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once only because the earthquake had shaken their hill villages too. Sir Alexander asked and got the power to declare martial law, inasmuch...
Sixty years ago the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's prime sales talk to prospective passengers was that its trains had been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...
...Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been closed. Meatmen put the figure at about 12% of that number...
Fortnight ago John Philip Sr. died. John Philip Jr. had returned from the interment at Rock Island the morning his Son George was abducted...
...class of 1935 is the rock-bottom Depression class. It has been noted for its extreme seriousness, its high grades and the number of its members who have earned their expenses. By last week it was apparent that the class of 1935, having had a harder time in college than any of its recent predecessors, would have an easier time getting jobs...