Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city on the instalment plan. He slashed payrolls, economized in every direction. Soon he was able to buy the Tabernacle from the Court for $200,000. Owning all the land, he decided never to sell any but to offer 1,100-year leases. A land boom sent his fortune skyward...
...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...
...comparative quiet of noon-hour one day last week in the mining village of Millfield, Ohio, a great rumbling and roar burst skyward. Suddenly the place swarmed with running human beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives...
...staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business man ager of their Kansas City Post, where he remained 16 years. When the Kansas City Post was sold, Brother Max bought the Casper, Wyo. Herald, sent its circulation and advertising skyward, sold out, repeated the process with the St. Joseph, Mo. Gazette. When Henry Justin Allen wanted to sell his Wichita Beacon, Broth ers Louis and John joined Brother Max in buying 65% control for about...
Small Goddard rockets utilizing this fuel have been weighted, ignited, allowed to rise a measurable distance. Only in this way may accurate rocket data be gathered. Dr. Goddard declines .to confirm reports that he is now building a new giant test rocket, soon to be sent skyward from a Government-loaned field at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass...