Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With vigorous Chief Jay N. ("Ding") Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey alarmed at the dwindling U. S. supply of wild duck, his agents have lately redoubled their efforts to smash the 'legging ring. They have got no help from natives. Eastern Shore merchants are notoriously incurious about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed...
...failure flashed westward, both the Kansas City and St. Louis grain exchanges closed down. Wheat sank on the Winnipeg and Minneapolis exchanges, only major grain markets open in all of North America. Grain brokers from coast to coast held their breath in anticipation of a grand market smash...
...smash came. Shrewd Emanuel Rosenbaum had timed his movements skillfully. He knew the Board of Trade must sooner or later carry out its rules which call for suspension of any member unable to meet his obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market...
...Bride of Frankenstein (Universal). When Carl Laemmle Jr. resurrected the cadaver of an old story by Mary Shelley and sent it shuffling out with necrotic vivacity to become the box-office smash of 1932, he cannily left the door open for a sequel. Audiences went away from Frankenstein wondering whether the monster really died in the blazing mill that seemed to be his catafalque. Now, it appears...
...Every Precaution." This smash vote, which sent Parliament home for Easter, was not obtained until Premier Flandin had also taken measures of extreme seventy to protect France from possible unexpected German attack...