Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it was just some sort of Christmas parade. No parade, the mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged, militia officers, determined to hold the court house, ordered: "Fire!" A countryman named Pat Lawes spun around like a top, fell eight feet from the court house porch to a concrete walk below, dying. A house painter named Edwards dropped with a bullet through his chest. Two other countrymen were mortally wounded. Twenty in the mob were peppered in the legs with buckshot...
...mixed with milk in a cup-like container at the top of the apparatus, in which is suspended a piston on the end of a handle. When the handle is pressed down, the milk and butter are forced through a narrow hole under pressure (600 lb. per sq. in.), spun down the curls of a valve and spring, and emulsified to form cream which spurts from a metal teat. From two oz. of butter and four oz. of milk the cream machine can make approximately one-half pint of coffee cream for 6¢less than half the cost...
...over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
...ignominious end in a Chicago railroad yard. On their second attempt Settle and Fordney reached 61,237 ft., which remains the official record. Much was hoped for, scientifically, from this flight. It had been planned to measure the directional variation of cosmic rays at great heights. The balloon spun round so rapidly during the flight that this could not be done. Jars of fruit flies were to be taken aloft to see if the cosmic rays would produce mutations. While the stratonauts were waiting for good weather the fruit flies died...
...amazing German has been personal State Secretary to every head of the Fatherland since the abdication of Wilhelm II. He was a "Socialist" with President Ebert, a Nationalist with President von Hindenburg and today he seems to be a Nazi with Realmleader Hitler. When stories of German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke into the House of Socialist President Ebert's widow with intent to carry off her son to a concentration camp, she managed...