Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of checking the sudden crime wave which has overrun the state, Governor Ely has recommended that all the police forces be coordinated into a single body. This coordination, it is hoped, will result in a more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces...
...suspicion of graft, had sent the army planes of a sudden into the air, they would have found themselves out-maneuvered and shot down. The private planes might, in due time, be fitted for military service, but modern aerial warfare is too quick and deadly to await their reconstruction. Obviously, what the situation demands is not a larger air force, but an air force whose existing equipment is effective, up-to-date, and at least on a par with that of the private lines...
...still; that trade movements and relations once interrupted can with the utmost difficulty be restored; that even in tranquil and prosperous times there is a constant shifting of trade channels. . . . Every nation must at all times be in a position quickly to adjust its taxes and tariffs to meet sudden changes and avoid severe fluctuations in both its exports and its imports...
...inexorable squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...Government's cancellation of all its airmail contracts flew the U. S. Army last week. Not for a decade had the military hauled the mails in its fighting planes. But now President Roosevelt had declared an "emergency"' as the result of Postmaster General Farley's sudden discovery of what he thought was "fraud and collusion" in the awarding of airmail contracts to private operators by his predecessor, Republican Walter Folger Brown...