Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty's first destination was Copenhagen, thence to Mr. Hillig's Steinbrucken. But the weather, none too good during the Winnie Mae's crossing, had improved not at all in the next 13 hours. Expanses of fog were relieved only by rain; cloud banks were broken only by a northeast gale. For 17 hours the flyers saw no water. Early in the morning Pilot Hoiriis spiralled the plane down through a rift in the clouds-and there was land! It must be England, dead on the path of Copenhagen. Any moment they expected to sight the English...
Sunny's Cloud. For some years the 25 service stations of Sunny Service Oil Co. have undersold national oil companies in Detroit. Last week Col. Walter Corydon Cole of Union League Club of Michigan accused Sunny Service of buying gasoline from U. S. S. R. at 3½? a gallon, "laid down" in Detroit. That is only a fraction more than mere transport charges of gasoline from Texas to Detroit...
...then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French Open Golf championship at Deauville, with a 291. Tied for second were Argentine Thomas Genta, Percy Alliss. British pro for the Wannsee Golf Club, Berlin...
...prairie at 50 m.p.h. At the throttle was Engineer B. E. McKee. Behind him in the string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing its far-off rumble, he knew a tornado was near, jerked his throttle wide-open to outrace it. Out of the murk it came, an infernal funnel of dust and cloud, spinning along toward his train across the prairie...
Totals 636 The Conference met in a cloud of gloom. Sessions were "secret," punctuated by leaks. Quarreling began on the first day and continued until the last. Nothing was accomplished except to make "personal contacts" and set up a permanent statistical bureau to gather data on wheat, already plentiful. The Conference disbanded, died an utter failure...