Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cliff. What would happen if it tried to go backward or forward could be seen by looking down. In the gorge 35 ft. below lay the broken body of the deer's mate. Only hope of rescue seemed to lie in throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge. Up to late last week it had not been rescued, was licking dew from the rocks to quench its thirst...
...Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools on earth...
...daughter run off in their B. V. D.'s and an outboard came to build houses and pick cocoa nuts on a private little Island. Paradise becomes promptly Lost through the intervention of Mount Pelee and the young lady's tribe. Mr. McCrea succeeds in straddling the smoking chasm which opens up beneath his fact, and trusty American fides prevent them from becoming release fodder for Mount Pelee. J.J.T.Jr...
...bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...manufactured articles at the factory. It was estimated that the current value of manufactured goods approximated $40,000,000,000 per year. A 2% tax on this production at the factory would bring the Treasury a fat $800,000,000, which would speedily bridge the awful chasm of Deficit...