Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were few other Germans to share his happiness. For a fortnight the German Government had been in the position of a man with a wild bull by the tail. So far they were safe, but every thought was for that moment when they would have to let go. The Brüning Cabinet still had the bull by the tail last week. They took a firmer grip...
...ning Cabinet had another of their interminable series of emergency meetings. By President von Hindenburg's original decree, German banks must reopen fully for business this week. That would be releasing the bull's tail with a vengeance. A new decree was placed on Old Paul's desk, and promptly signed, continuing the partial closure of the banks indefinitely. Foreign exchange can be bought only through the Reichsbank. Penalties for violating the new banking laws include confiscation of property and ten-year jail sentences...
Sirs: In reference to your "Queer Drugs" on p. 24 of July 6 issue in regard to a Japanese Silky fowl. This bird has a normal tail, and is not to be confused with the Yokohama or Phoenix chicken of which there is a specimen in the Tokyo museum with a tail covert length...
...pile-which had been dumped out of doors for lack of elevator space. At Bucklin, one Forrest Kennett got his name in the papers by scorning a 27? per bu. offer, decorating his truck with jackasses labelled "Farm Board" and "Wheat Farmer," and driving away with the tail board down so his load dribbled out through the town's streets. Here & there growers plowed their crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable to harvest his 155-acre stand, watched 2,800 bu. bring $100 at auction-about...
...rail Zeppelin" is 85 ft. long. Streamlined into its tail is a 600-h. p. in-line motor which drives a four-bladed "pusher" propeller. Testing for damage from the propeller blast, or from suction caused by the whizzing body, observers last week placed papers near the rails. As the locomotive roared by. none of the papers stirred, so effective was the streamlining...