Word: six
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber plants as well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
Among the spectators who applauded were six Justices of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Hughes warmly shook the hand of Librarian MacLeish, the hand of Britain's Ambassador. It had been a good day's work for Anglo-American relations. It had been a good day's work for shrewd Lord Lothian...
...six months of the year young Ken Keltner, of Milwaukee, Wis., has a good job-playing third base for the Cleveland Indians. This year it paid him about $10,000. The season over, he has no visible means of support. A friend drew this fact to Ken Keltner's attention...
...Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds of roulette, without any zeros), if only by blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped...