Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot...
...grim forces continued to advance against him through the State of Jalisco. Among the corpses after one engagement was found the body of the Catholic General. Elated, General Cedillo wired President Fortes Gil that he would have the State of Jalisco wiped clean of Catholic rebels in ten days...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...