Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face of rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their...
...Viceroy is a Scottish banker from rock-ribbed Edinburgh, his feelings at this display of money to burn were doubtless even more excruciating than Reynolds' Illustrated News hinted...
...aluminum "Magic Brain'' which has been touring the country as a publicity stunt for Radio Corporation of America, and which will be sold commercially at $10,000 each around April 15. Second best advertised was a baseball game called "1937 World Series" made by Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp...
...paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls at the Association's annual banquet when he devoted two out of three minutes of his speech to plugging Rock...
...best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose $1,000,000 in damages...