Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April shower. By the time four years are up we shall miss our Dolly Ganns and our Cissie Pattersons. Now, I am awfully sorry, I must rush off for a buffet affair for some 200 people. Isn't it vulgar...
Last week in New York their two-months-old Deodorizer Co. was doing a thriving business. An alert staff stood by, ready to rush and spray at any hour. They can make a valerianated room habitable in 12 hr., destroy 98% of the odor in 24 hr., all of it in two or three days. Racketeering bombers were keeping them busy at the rate of a dozen or two bombings a week. More & more manufacturers were seeking their services. Lloyd's of London recommended them to clients insured against malicious mischief...
...more sensible move was to rush correspondents to the city prison where Police Chief Rudolph Diehls showed them various Communist leaders that had been reported beaten to death, executed or exiled at different times in the past week. In the first cell sat Ernst Thalmann, Communist candidate for President in last year's election (TIME, April 18, 1932). Like a guide, in the zoo the Police Chief orated...
Frank Williams, flying the Transcontinental & Western Air route 50 mi. west of Albuquerque. N. Mex., saw the whole sky suddenly illuminated "as if someone had turned on a great blue electric light." A core of blue brilliance seemed to rush toward him from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs...
First large deposit was $1,000,000 from General Motors. Later in the day GM sent another $2,000.000. Biggest depositor was Chrysler with $4,000,000. Four guards from Kroger Baking lugged in $250,000 cash. The rush of small depositors kept the bank open 40 minutes after closing time. When the books closed the total inpouring...