Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quick to respond to word of great distress in hurricane-devastated Belize (see p. 19), President Hoover ordered the Navy to rush assistance by plane from the Canal Zone, mobilized the help of the Red Cross...
Majority. Scot MacDonald and his new ministers were preparing last week to rush their financial program through an emergency session of Parliament. The Prime Minister was prepared for an immediate test of strength, a vote of confidence on the first day. No one doubted that he would get it. Despite the organized Laborite opposition, Conservative and Liberal whips guaranteed him a majority of at least...
...rubbers, teas and mining shares help give 'Change its international flavor. A broker receiving an order in rubbers may have to rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan. The mining list includes famed De Beers Diamond Mines, the Rand (gold), Johannesburg Consolidated Investments ("Johnnies"), Rio Tinto ("The Tinto"), Roan Antelope, Katanga, Mount Isa, Siamese...
...come every day. Federal troops cornered the white-haired old warrior near Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio. He escaped to the hills on horseback with 22 followers. Again there was a traitor. The Federals followed to Peraza's secret camp on Toro Hill. There was a rush, a rattle of musketry. Ten were shot where they lay, ten were captured, two escaped. The old man reached for his rifle and fell with three bullets in him. So rough was the trail that it took 18 hours to carry the old fighter's body five miles...
...through the water, going toward his daughter. He knew what it belonged to, though never had he heard of a shark in Gull Pond. Quickly seizing a rusty iron bar that was lying on the beach, Carl Y. Matthews interposed himself between the fish and its prey, met its rush, smashed it on the head, dragged it ashore, killed it. It was a blue shark 6 ft. 7 in. long...