Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...
...Hell. It was also tinder dry. It had been dry for five rainless months. Lake Michigan reached its lowest stage in a decade. The Mississippi was lower than it had ever been. On the Great Lakes, cargo boats went 25% light to get over the shoals. Aviators had to climb 5,000 ft. above Omaha to surmount sulphur-colored dust clouds. But the distress to navigators, airmen and city folk was nothing to the desperation of Midwestern farmers, as they watched their fields incinerate, their cattle actually perish of hunger and thirst...
...class, starting with the modest promise that they--the Winsor girls, don't "feel that our history is anything starting or brilliant in its originality". For two years all seems to have gone nicely until in class III a few of the more daring spirits began to climb upon the ventilators. The next year matters went from bad to worse and they are frank to admit that "the whole class acemed to have awallowed a dexil." This was the year when "we piled all the chairs on our oaks and then dashed them all off again--just to hear...
...Edward Boeing. Last week the Collier Trophy- third in the trinity of aviation's outstanding awards-went to Frank Walker Caldwell for the "greatest achievement in aviation in America" during the past year. His achievement: the "controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he built a glider and wrote a thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell put his education to practical...
...gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other books: A History of Persia, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia...