Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOSTON--Fires raged unchecked through hurricane-tangled forests strewn with tinder-like debris, in three scattered New England sectors tonight...
...fires that are likely to result from the accumulation of these huge piles of tinder will be of a spectacular variety which has never been seen in this part of the country, usually being confined to the great timber stands of the West coast, he said. They will be of the type known as "crown fires" where the flames shoot to a height of 500 feet, creating a mighty draught which throws burning brands half a mile ahead of the main blaze and makes it absolutely uncontrollable...
...Last month a U. S. team won the Gordon Medal (since 1884 the
symbol of Canadian-U. S. superiority) for the 13th time. *Early stones
were natural waterworn boulders. Modern stones are quarried tinder
water in Scotland, have
...strikes which are planned for months in advance, in which every exigency is carefully provided for and in which the goal is not better conditions for the working men but increased war-chests and amplified political power--these strikes are supremely dangerous, flagrantly illegal in every sense and potential tinder-boxes for they will result in a desperate industrial war sooner or later. The Ford Company from the first day of the depression maintained its policy of exceptionally high wages for all, fairness toward all employees and better working and living conditions than has ever been seen in the history...
...hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they...