Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oahu Taken. At dawn the Hawaiian attack began. Into the mist, the Saratoga and Lexington launched a swarm of planes. On Oahu the Army, whose great searchlights had fingered the sky all night, was ready. Nine thousand men from Schofield Barracks were deployed in the underbrush. Anti-aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb...
...more a Soviet peasant grew the more he had to deliver to the State. Hereafter his quota will be fixed by Feb. 15 each year and will stay fixed, thus encouraging the peasant to grow as large a surplus as possible for his own use and to sell at sky-high open-market prices. Peasants who do not fulfill their quota "will be treated as criminals" according to the decree...
MURDER IN FULL FLIGHT-Marcus Magill-Lippincott ($2). The corpse plunges from the sky. 'Twas murder, after the plans were found missing. A she-crook leaves sufficient track to trace the culprits, occasionally by plane...
...Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
...entitled The Peristyle, the new concert hall is built like a Greek outdoor theatre with sharply sloping banks of seats around the arena and a pillared colonnade at the back. Borrowing an idea from the newer cinemansions the flat-domed ceiling is artificially illuminated to look like a night sky. The lobby is known as the pronaos. The kopron is simply marked...