Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with minor bruises. Engineer Southerland. seeing he could not stop in time, signaled frantically to Engineer McClintock in the second locomotive, then pulled his throttle wide open, tore loose from his train and hurtled onto the culvert. The engine carried across the bridge even as it crumpled, safely reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois' worst railroad wreck...
...Paris 1931 with thirty-three and a half millions. On May 23 only four pavilions were ready when Paris 1937 was "inaugurated" by sad-eyed, droop-mustached French President Albert Lebrun, but last week 160 pavilions were complete and the Exposition was all but finished. Wiseacres agreed that a solid month of sightseeing would be necessary to make a thorough job of Paris 1937 and that this week the one word for it was "SUCCESS...
...jury of twelve of his neighbors old Mr. Norton, solid and bushy-browed, told the same story he told to the Greenfield police hurriedly summoned to his house on the night of May 25. He was just leaving his garage after driving his wife home from a church meeting when a man in a long coat appeared in the doorway, pointed a gun at him and said in a clear voice: "Norton, I want to talk to you." Mr. Norton ducked into his house and the man disappeared. But he had recognized a face and voice he had worked with...
...readers of educational advertisements in the flyleaves of solid U. S. periodicals, two young women gazing placidly into a mirror ball have represented for many years National Park Seminary of Forest Glen, Md. National Park's well publicized mirror ball and reputation as a stronghold of Southern culture were the creations of a remarkable Illinois educator named James E. Ament, who bought a part interest in the school in 1916 and managed it with distinction for 20 years. When Dr. Ament died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire...
...market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with a value of $103,758,787 showed that during some of the most decided bear selling...