Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrapnel does not splinter. High explosive shell (termed simply H. E.) is what splinters on impact and causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...
Last Monday morning 400,000 soft coal miners in Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Illinois and Ohio failed to go to work and the fourth bituminous strike in the U. S. since the War was on. But nobody got excited...
This same coal strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled...
...soft job, when the long trek's over...
Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...