Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacular, unexpected "battle of the grain." Russia's potent Five-Year-Plan chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will be possible to reap 47% of the Soviet grain crop by machinery, whereas the figure last year...
...water column, the temperature rises above the normal boiling point before steam is liberated. Once steam begins to form against the pressure, it raises the column, spilling water on top. This reduces the pressure below so that steam is liberated with fast-increasing rapidity, and so with a rush the geyser erupts. When it is over the tube begins to fill with water for the next cycle...
...Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself in one trip and made a profit of $41,000 to boot...
...blacked a steward's eye, whereupon another steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles behind them), that the company had gone bankrupt. They were all jailed for piracy...
...most enjoyable vacation I ever had," he observes, "it was worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow...