Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sequel to Monday's balloon-bursting episode in Lowell House was provided yesterday when a chubby hydrogen filled blimp soared to the ceiling during dinner. Resourceful Bellboys, undismayed by the situation, reached up and grasped a string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...
...Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master of a 20-ton yawl. By the time...
Round No. 2 amounted to an about face in the Treasury's recent credit policies, which helped bring on the Depression. A year ago when Government's prime concern was not Depression but a runaway boom, the Federal Reserve Board boosted bank reserve requirements. This cut down the total of potential credit in the form of excess bank reserves and made money a little more expensive to borrow. Last week the President told Congress it was now time to lower reserve requirements-which the Reserve Board did forthwith. Net effect of lowering reserve requirements was to increase excess...
...Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Eastern, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave way as the locomotive passed over it, dropped the caboose in which he was riding 40 feet into a flooded river, killing...
...good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great cave with Becky-these are still the high ups & low downs of Tom's story...