Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation...
...working on a set of wings in his spare time while traveling with an air circus. Few weeks ago he completed his flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...
Next on the site was a group of scientists from the University of Utah. They set about disinterring the second skeleton, found that the neck was missing. Investigation revealed that the Smithsonian Institution had the neck. The harassed Utah diggers then discovered that their skeleton also lacked a tail. Investigation revealed that the tail had been encountered some yards away from the body by the original Carnegie party, had been sent back to Pittsburgh...
While all concerned pondered the fact that the skeleton was scattered like the pages of a Gutenberg Bible-the neck in Washington, the tail in Pittsburgh, the head and body in Utah-the Smithsonian made the cataclysmic discovery that its neck and the rest of its specimen were of two different species...
Into this roiled situation stepped a kindly bystander, the American Museum of Natural History, to help & advise, mediate & make peace. So tactful was the peacemaker that when the smoke had cleared it was observed that the dismembered monster-the neck from Washington, the tail from Pittsburgh, the head and body from Utah-had all traveled to Manhattan and into the maw of the American Museum...