Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even without Commander Woodrooffe, the review that took place earlier that day was a naval occasion no Briton should forget. Between Portsmouth on the Hampshire shore and the green Isle of Wight lie the most famed yachting waters in the world. Here in a carefully marked out area of 24 sq. mi. were assembled 277 ships ranging from the world's greatest warship, the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, to a proud delegation of British herring trawlers. Wardroom statisticians quickly figured that the 143 British warships in line alone displaced 670,000 tons, cost British taxpayers...
...schooner, the Gypsum Queen, sank off the Irish Coast during a storm. The crew took to boats, were picked up by a freighter without loss of life. Fifteen years later the owner and captain, Freeman Hatfield of Nova Scotia, bobbed up with the story that the Gypsum Queen had been torpedoed by a German submarine. He claimed indemnity and in 1931 finally got from the Canadian Government $71,276,72. Year later Captain Hatfield abandoned the sea, went to the U. S.. opened a small chicken farm in Candia, N. H. An old seafaring friend of his lived there...
...Negrin now had under him a tight, unified, little Cabinet of nine, the sixth Leftist Cabinet since the civil war's outbreak. The refusal of the Anarcho-Syndicalists to participate in a Government that they derided as "bourgeois" worked in Dr. Negrin's favor, for that label took some of the curse of radicalism off a Government which has for ten months been trying to convince the world democracies that it is not Red. It heartened the majority of Spanish Leftists who seem to want democracy more than communism. In point of fact, the Cabinet of Dr. Negrin...
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...
...American Museum's consistent increase of attendance is unique among U. S. museums of natural history. In 1933 Chicago's Field Museum took care of 3,269,300, last year 1,191,437. In 1933 Los Angeles' Museum of History, Science & Art attendance was 1,276,911, last year 597,079. It and other museums attribute their peak popularity to Depression when free entertainment and shelter attracted full houses. This year attendance is generally increasing, apparently due to new interests which museum directors are stirring in their communities. And every new interest stirs a hope for gifts...