Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane pilots now began a strange race to make most ferry trips, rescue most men. They set their loads down at Cape Van Karem, hastily refueled and tore back to the ice pack. In one day Pilot Molokov made four trips, got 20 villagers. Pilot Kamanin made four, got 18. The population of the village dwindled to 28, to six. Finally the last six were set down at Cape Van Karem. And then the pilots went back for the dogs and such scientific instruments as were worth the haul...
...general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work, was able finally to open shop again when its workers (unlike Nash's and Seaman Body's) accepted a 10% wage increase...
...Alexandria. La.. Combatant Johnny Plummer became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...
...walk two feet with you," replied his cellmate. Herbert Youngblood, a Negro in for murder, alone accepted. They selected two machine guns from the jail arsenal, and, taking Deputy Ernest Blunk as hostage, went to the jail garage. They could not start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short...