Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with State troops until new and stronger prorationing measures should be put in effect. The U. S. consumes...
...White House where he was buried in work, into the midWest where he was born in want, a harassed and long-suffering President last week carried his case for reelection. For three years he had hugged his desk tighter than any chief executive ever did. The country had lost sight of him as a human being. Since his renomination in June he had left the burden of his campaign to nonelective Cabinet members who could not ask for votes in their own right. All their warm words failed to bring to life the silent, remote figure in Washington. Now, barely...
Pisonia Branonia is a New Zealand tree which Maoris call "The Birdcatcher." Its seeds grow in clusters covered with heavy gum. When small birds fly into the tree, their feathers are caught by the sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...
Last week New York State's Board of Medical Examiners, one of the strictest in the land, shut New York's door tighter than ever. Only schools whose graduates have any chance to be examined in New York are the governmental medical schools of Austria, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, England, Ireland and Scotland...
...learned of the struggle going on in the pumphouse, began dropping in to watch. Within a week bets were being laid, with the snake a heavy favorite. Then the watchers noticed a curious thing. The spider, always working out of the snake's reach, was pulling the web tighter and, fraction by fraction of an inch, the snake was being lifted from the floor...