Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-two terrible hours later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies...
...paying for its shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
...California's Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...painful experience, that Hitler abandoned comrades who got themselves in jail. When Hitler was imprisoned after the 1923 ''Beer Hall Putsch," Ludecke was sent on a begging tour of the U. S., where he negotiated - unsuccessfully - with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip-this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades- he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit he married a plain, sensible...
...briefly last night at the intersetion of Linden and Mt. Auburn Streets, a woman driver was distressed when it continued to blow for exactly two minutes and 30 seconds. A passing chauffeur finally silenced the racket, and lusty cheers of relief could be heard the length of the Gold Coast...