Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fewer & fewer people stood in lines before Red Cross relief camp kitchens in Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...Long Beach, 13 schools were completely demolished. Eleven more were so badly damaged that it was doubtful that they would be rebuilt. The board of education appropriated $260,000 for temporary school buildings. The Compton Junior College and High School were destroyed. In the unincorporated sections of the quake sector. 10 other school buildings were total losses...
...comparison with Long Beach. Los Angeles only got a good shaking. Nevertheless, of the 375 schools in the Los Angeles School District, 142 suffered earthquake damage. Parents could be thankful that the shock did not hit until late afternoon. Gimcrackery in the prevailing neo-Gothic style fell in cruel heaps, would have mangled children trying to escape...
...Ormond Beach, Fla., John D. Rockefeller Sr, reviewed the children's parade in a village street fair, watched a 5-year-old girl do a toe-dance. He asked a prizewinner, "What will you give me if I give you this ribbon?" The little girl gave him a kiss. He chuckled and kissed her hand, later put his hand on a child's head and spryly kicked over...
...Virginia's Senator Glass, Utah's King, Illinois' Lewis, Colorado's Costigan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., all with colds, the Senators in Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries...