Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James S. Morrow, farmer near Warren, Ohio, last week averred that Dolly and Polly, two wild geese he owns, are more than 117 years old. Ornithologists found such age incredible although they know little concerning the life span of wild creatures...
...Mayor; that George V is England's King; Herbert Hoover the U. S. President; Calvin Coolidge, ex-President; George Washington, first President; that electricity "lights, shocks"; that tea comes from Japan. She knew the meanings of: copper, dungeon, lecture, haste. Things she did not know: the life-span of a horse; the largest city in the U. S.; why the heart beats. If she were hunting a ball lost in a circular field and were, offered two ways of finding it, she would utilize the "inferior" one. An 8th grade student in school, she was found by Teacher Friendly...
...Socony-Vacuum consummation revived talk of another, much bigger merger of old Standard units: Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Standard of California. Such a merger would span the continent, would bring together $2,381,289,000 in assets, would create by far the biggest oil company in the world. It would give an outlet to California's tremendous crude production (including half of the Kettleman Hills field) through the extensive marketing system which New Jersey has built up in the central and south Atlantic states, in Europe and Latin America...
...years across the Red River from Durant, Okla. to Denison, Tex. has stood a private toll bridge, now in receivership. Early this year Texas and Oklahoma finished building a free span close to the toll bridge. The toll bridge receivers went into Federal Court in Houston and obtained an injunction against Texas' opening the free bridge until such time as the Legislature authorized them to sue the State for $180,000 in damages to their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay...
With Rangers blocking the free bridge, Governor Murray was determined that no one should use the toll bridge. Therefore he declared martial law-the first in eight years in Oklahoma-over the road to the latter span, summoned 32 guardsmen, including a colonel, three captains and a lieutenant, to halt all traffic a mile and a half away. After being duly photographed and interviewed, this force took up its patrol with orders from the Adjutant General: "Hold the fort but keep the cost down...