Word: week
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stiff-faced and stoical was a crowd clustered about the entrance of the Old Town Coal Company's mine at McAlester, Okla. last week. Out of the mine were carried 60 bodies. Three were unconscious, overcome by afterdamp (carbon monoxide) which had followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken...
When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead, sped away. When he smashed up his car, he used his gun to persuade motorists to give him lifts. Officers traced the police-killer closely for an hour, then lost him. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Frederick Dane, owner of a commodious home...
...farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture compiled final estimates of crop values for the year. Significant figures...
Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
Already in desperate financial straits, Chicago last week found itself confronted with what amounts to a fine of $176,000,000 as a penalty for diverting much water from Lake Michigan to flush its sewers. In accordance with a U. S. Supreme Court judgment last January that Chicago's water diversion illegally lowered the Great Lakes level to the peril of navigation. Special Master in Chancery Charles Evans Hughes presented to the court upon which he himself once sat a "sentence" for Chicago's violation. That the Supreme Court would approve the Hughes report seemed certain. He advised...