Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...midnight last week attendants at Miami municipal airport smelled smoke, then saw it streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...devout son of a Congregationalist minister, Arnaud Marts does not smoke or drink. He soon had 700 Bucknell students attending chapel. He also boosted the university's enrollment to 1,235, largest in its history, restored faculty salary cuts and in two years raised $800,000 for college buildings...
...this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed of whom is liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst, were diligently preparing to tight the case to a finish...
...Tomas, on the eastern slope of the Manzanos, has seven houses, a church and a school. It has no store, no telephones, no radios, since none of Juan Tomas' families owns a motor car, the only glimpse its children have of modern civilization is of the puffs of smoke rising from railroad trains in the Rio Grande Valley...