Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charleston's tornadoes in trio were not unusual, nor were they related to the hurricane which struck farther up the northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists...
...from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's blow-off with the symphony directors in 1934, when he relinquished his post as music director, he and co-Conductor Otmandy have been nominal equals...
...Blow (by Theodore Pratt; produced by the Federal Theatre). An audience that ten days before had felt the stinging fingertips of the Atlantic hurricane, shivered through the last scenes of Big Blow when a Florida hurricane whistled and tore across the stage, left it in darkness, crumpled a huge revival tent like a paper bag. As exciting as superb sound effects (lent by Samuel Goldwyn) could make it, the big blow should rank among the season's tensest moments of "theatre...
Following the first fierce blow came tidal waves, several in succession to heights of 30 or 40 feet. Bath houses, boat houses, summer cottages, Coast Guard stations, long rows of squat and sturdy stores were swept away, hammered into high windrows of kindling wood or carried over whole to toss on the raging bay waters. Of 150 buildings in West Hampton Beach, six were left standing. In the bays, even in village streets on the mainland, drowning people screamed and struggled...
Grounded during the big blow itself, American Airlines started flying next morning. By 9 o'clock every scheduled flight was booked solid. By noon there was a waiting list of 800. Unable to carry more than a small percentage of the demand, even by tripling its service, American Airlines got Civil Aeronautics Authority permission to waive its franchise, then asked other airlines to help out. United Air Lines, Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Air pitched in. When at week's end railroad grades and highways were got back into shape, other lines retired after the busiest spell...