Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last month did Sir Henri Deterding, swart, dynamic head of Royal Dutch-Shell, shrug off the possibility of a world oil parley in view of the low estate...
Since the Chilean peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...
Once accustomed to writhe at the sickening servility of their Sultans to the Great Powers, Turks were prouder than ever last week of their swart, hard Dictator Gazi ("Victorious One"), Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Shortly before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora stepped into the corridor of Washington's squat, ramshackle Federal Trade Commission Building, marched into the office of Commissioner James M. Landis. The first meeting of the new Securities & Exchange Commission was about to be held, a chairman elected. In an office four doors down the corridor waited Commissioners Matthews, Healy and Kennedy. Thirty minutes passed and Mr. Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper...