Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from the fiery shafts. Occupants of twelve houses" near New Straitsville were evacuated when the foundations buckled. The town's $80,000 schoolhouse is considered in danger. A farmer named Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground...
...produce a thousand quarts of milk weekly requires 15-18 milch cows, $10,000 investment in farm, stock, and tools, two men working 14 hours a day, 365 in the year, day help in rush seasons. Weekly return on such a layout today, $40. Wage scale for union milk wagon drivers in Boston: $38 a week plus commission, three days off a month, two weeks' vacation with...
...from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds of Red air bombs. Just before the final White assault last week, the Red Militia touched off six more tons of dynamite, but this too was such a clumsy job that Alcázar Cadets in the last desperate struggle made a rush from their fortress, so that the militia were caught between two fires...
...order of King Edward last week was the large bedroom formerly occupied by King George and Queen Mary. His Majesty chose for himself a small bed room near the pantry, occupied until last week by a servant. The servant was moved out and Scottish plumbers did a record rush job of installing for the King a bathroom with an electric pushbutton handy by the tub to call his valet...
...consequence, successful dances have become a point of vital import. In the past there have been mad scrambles for the most favorable dates, a rush for orchestras and tendency towards higher-priced bands which could not always be reasonably afforded, and contests in ticket scalping and advertising...