Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...
Terror still gripped Havana. In socialite Vedado suburb a young Negro attempted to steal a bicycle, ducked round a corner when he was seen. It was a stupid move for round that corner was the wall of Principe Fortress, on the wall was a prison guard with a rifle in his hand and nothing to do. The reaction of a Cuban guard to a running Negro is precisely that of a British sportsman to a rocketing pheasant. He killed him with a single shot...
...went to law, got injunction after injunction against the proration orders of the Texas Railroad Commission. While the courts were voiding orders and the Commission making new ones, the rough & tumble crowd in East Texas took other means. They constructed secret pipe connections, they enlarged valves, to ''steal their own oil." Mr. Holmes estimated that 75,000,000 bbl. of "hot" oil were taken out illegally in 15 months-nearly half of it in Texas. Early in April the output of the East Texas field, supposedly around 400,000 bbl., was estimated at twice that. The new proration...
...Next move was to steal a little Communist thunder and make the old Marxist fête day, May 1, surprisingly quiet the world over, a Nazi Day. First gesture of the loudly proclaimed ''Feast of National Labor" was to release thousands of the less important Socialist and Communist political prisoners from the heavily guarded Nazi detention camps throughout Germany...
...five hits in a ten-inning game by Tiffmann, so the Second Freshmen retained its closer slate. Harvard was three runs behind in the sixth, but tied up the score in the eighth and went into the tenth to win in this inning, a base on balls, a steal and a single resulted in the final talk...