Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even an $850 plane would be a triumph. . . . Sales costs are too high anyway; the lists of prospects gathered by the questionnaire should make selling easy. . . . Planes can be, must be cheaper, and if the aviation industry snubs the idea let it beware of the automobile industry which may snatch...
...announcement of major diplomatic importance. Up till now England and Japan, despite small frictions, such as the invasion of Manchuria, have maintained cordial, gentlemanly relations; they were two empires with but a single thought. Today that situation is changed, drastically. The English fear trade competition, and this insidious snatch at the Empire's purse will hardly promote goodwill. If Japanese underselling continues, British neutrality in the East may fade away; and that, coupled with American recognition of the Soviet Union, should throw not a little cold water on Nipponese aggression. On the other hand, both these factors may be construed...
...diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior's hand, administer his own entirely different treatment...
...father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete crypt in the basement of a house he could not locate. Reported ransom: $10,000. Elsewhere the week's snatching wave lapped and lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped. A 42-year-old poultryman named Patrick Fallon was taken from a farm at Bridgewater, Mass. Frederick J. Persons...
...Show was as much as, and more than the crowd had bargained for. Through a barrage of questions and cross-questions the crowd was unable to put together a sensible balance sheet of the House of Morgan. However, it did snatch from the crackling atmosphere various unrelated facts & figures, fascinating to an insatiably curious public...