Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable, the saw mill was sold. . . . The Samoans do not take a great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered by the chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely...
...Gorky automotive works the Brothers Ivan and Feodor Kriachkov assassinated their fellow worker Ivan Schmerov because he had speeded up his daily output 200%. Tried before a military tribunal, they were sentenced to death. In the coal mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov...
...small-town chemist-electrician named James A. Boze, trudging through the muck of French battlefields, concluded, like many another before him, that the almost constant rains were caused by the incessant explosion of heavy artillery shells. This summer's drought gave James A. Boze of Waxahachie, Tex. an idea. Obtaining damage waivers from the owners of some 27,000 parched acres south of Dallas, he hired a plane, flew over clouds, dropped high-explosive bombs into them. That day it rained in Waxahachie. Farmers thanked Nature, not Boze...
...Later, I realized it was the Chancellor. I told him, 'Get up,' but he replied, 'I'm not able.' " Planetta and a 20-year-old electrician, Franz Holzweber, accused of leading the assassins into the Chancellery, were the first to be convicted. They were promptly hanged...
...Cautiously maneuvering through the murk her commander, with magnificent seamanship, brought the bow of his ship against the bow of the fiery Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton's 187 men and her cat were brought alive to Hongkong...