Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds later acrobatic Flight Lieutenant Abadia, who once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...
...Washington, Oregon and California, northward from Texas to the Dakotas, the 'hopper wave was at its crest in 24 States. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle the probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited in the ground by last year's females. But matters might have been worse: a good year for crops is a good...
...fall of Nanking five months ago, would not complete the process of dismembering China but would leave the Chinese only a fraction of what was once their nation. In the Yangtze Valley, main trade stem of central China, industrial Hankow is second only to Shanghai. Into Hankow daily roll trainloads of supplies, munitions from China's New Orleans (Canton), planeloads and motorcades of vital arms and materials from Russia through Sovietized Outer Mongolia (China's Pacific Northwest...
...lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed as No. 1, Jewish Magda Lupescu, the King's "favorite...
Died. William S. Brown, 43, Minneapolis labor leader and for 17 years president of the potent General Drivers Union No. 544; from a shot fired by his bodyguard, Arnold Ralph Johnson; in Minneapolis. Johnson, who had been drinking all afternoon, told police: "Brown flashed a roll of bills. I asked him for a share and he refused. I drew a gun and shot him. He was my best friend...