Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long bright plume from the nose. For an instant the Hindenburg seemed a rearing reptile darting its tongue in anger. Then it was a gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing...
...charge of the ground crew: "Navy men, stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted with third-degree burns, wandering...
...banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd. Abashed, the hiker tiptoed downstream, dropped his burden in a small clearing. While the two fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved...
...game hunters to impressionable lady schoolteachers. Their descriptions of the beast varied in detail but agreed roughly that it was 40 to 50 ft. long with a large whiskery head and eight humps; that it could travel 40 m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from...
With favorable opinion from more than one top-flight copyright lawyer, the Byron G. Moon Co. plans to promote "theme song print" dresses for women this autumn. From Music Publishers Protective Association Adman Moon obtained exclusive title rights to 300,000 copyrighted songs for 10% of the 1?-per-yd. "copyright fee" which the Moon Co. expects to collect from fabricators to whom it offers its titles. The Moon Co. has applied for 26 patents on the "theme song print" idea...