Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three straws-in-the-wind last week indicated that wherever United Automobile Workers' President Homer Martin is headed, the union is not headed...
Many a soldier on arrival in France "neglected" either to declare the jewels or to turn them in at the Consulate. French customs officers caught wind of the "smuggling," began a search. Seventy-six Loyalist officers and men were arrested, fined 18,000,000 francs and sentenced to jail terms ranging from one month to two years for evading customs laws. By last weekend the French Government was richer by some $397,000 worth of stones. It intended to apply the money thus raised to feeding the 380,000 Loyalist refugees it harbored. Last week 70,000 of the latter...
Although Chicago dentists enthusiastically applauded Dr. Messinger, dentists in Manhattan who soon got wind of the performance roundly denounced it. "Tooth replantation is an archaic, long-abandoned dangerous practice," said the Greater New York Bureau for Dental Information, official spokesman for Manhattan members of the American Dental Association. A replanted tooth is a foreign body, the Bureau warned. Even if sterilized, and even if it stays put, it may cause infection...
...last week it looked as though Publisher Patterson's curiosity was about to wind up in either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments...
...year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled and rolled for three days and nights through head-high snowdrifts, guided...