Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAllister thought he smelled smoke at 3:15 o'clock and, verifying the message of his olfactory organ, notified the Fire Department immediately. An enthusiastic group of spectators urged firemen on with cries of, "Come on you, break it in!" directed at several smoke-eaters who were climbing up to the third-floor windows. However, the firemen did not comply with these demands. Shouldering their axes, they entered the building the usual way: by opening windows...
...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...
...morning last week citizens strolling on Vienna's central Ring-Strasse watched a small black sport biplane droning through some unusual acrobatics. They stopped when the plane spewed a trail of smoke. They gasped when the skywriter left a huge, white woolly Communist hammer & sickle floating over Austria's capital. The little black biplane then flew on to suburban Modling, traced the initials U.S.S.R. against the blue. Up went six slow Austrian army planes in pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive...
...workers also campaigned for smoke abatement, because among other reasons, their laundry bills were higher than the laundry bills of Y. M. C. A. workers in Philadelphia and Boston. Property owners refused to paint their buildings or paper walls because smoke begrimed those coatings too quickly. Merchants had to keep their store windows lighted, motorists to use their headlights until noon on winter days. The estimates of what these man-made handicaps to living in St. Louis cost ran into fantastic millions...