Word: waistband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated the end of a unique frontier society, an equally unique frontier literature...
Into that tight waistband the Texas oil industry tried to squeeze last winter. Eager as most producers were to cut production enough to save prices, some refused to be constricted. Some went to law, got injunction after injunction against the proration orders of the Texas Railroad Commission. While the courts were voiding orders and the Commission making new ones, the rough & tumble crowd in East Texas took other means. They constructed secret pipe connections, they enlarged valves, to ''steal their own oil." Mr. Holmes estimated that 75,000,000 bbl. of "hot" oil were taken out illegally...
Last week, Miss Williams took one look at Negro Peterson and nodded. Suddenly the room was filled with smoke, flame and sound. Dent Williams had whipped out another gun, concealed in the waistband of his trousers, and had done what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released...