Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even moderately well-informed vegetarians know, the price of beef is currently sky-high (TIME, Oct. 4). Higher still-by about 1? per Ib.-is kosher beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
...built Curtiss-Hawk, whirred up and away into the northwest to meet the invaders. Just as the Chinese disappeared, the first Japanese air squadron came over from the opposite direction, the southeast, flying two miles up, a faintly buzzing swarm of about 40 grey ships in a dazzling blue sky. Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital opened up, and reserve Chinese pursuit fighters took the air, climbing to tear like clawing condors at the Japanese bombers' flanks. The Japanese wing leader...
...Berlin acrid yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared...
...these not was enough; another and yet another burned in the late evening sky, newspaper after newspaper rolling out of the windows. As one resident expressed it: "Perhaps KKK terrorism is not confined to the deep South...
...Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...