Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of the interruption to Los Angeles stations) might have affected Los Angeles to a serious extent. Presently I picked up a station west of me announcing that they were making strenuous effort to ascertain the extent of the disturbance. Shortly after we were informed of the Long Beach catastrophe. Then the air was quickly filled with exciting calls...
Malcolm Shephard Knowles, of West Palm Beach, Florida...
...dawn broke, 2,000 bluejackets and Marines, under the orders of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh-who had been shaken out of his Long Beach apartment but went back to bed as the shocks continued-patrolled the Long Beach area. At Long Beach, Marines guarded prisoners taken from the tottering jail. Only one arrest for looting was reported. People were still scratching desperately in the rubble for their missing and dead...
...natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers stood unharmed...
Against the wind on Miami Beach's championship La Gorce golf course, Ohio's three-time Governor James Middleton Cox, 62, who plays in the low 80's at Dayton's Miami Valley Golf Club, smote his ball true for a 230-yd. drive, holed it on his mashie shot for the first eagle two ever made on the 400-yd. 14th hole. At the 380-yd. 15th he put his iron second shot two inches from the cup for a birdie three. Club Professional Willie Klein stammered, "They were two of the best successively played...