Word: corals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance construction crew ran into difficulties on Wilkes. Days of digging, drilling and blasting under a broiling sun revealed no drinking water. Further difficulties arose when the men tried to blast a ship channel between Wilkes and Peale, to facilitate unloading the supply ship North Haven. The hard coral barrier proved so resistant to dynamite that the project was abandoned. Meanwhile on Wake Island proper, a brilliant electric light system was in operation, and the Pan American pioneers looked forward to "movies and all the comforts of home" by June...
...number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow,. 6,541; dark blue, 4,750; canary yellow, 4,489; carmine, 4,415; jade green, 3,819; light grey, 3,790; light blue, 3,480; aluminum, 3,426; light coral red, 3,361; white, 2,360; ivory yellow, 2,238; light green...
...launched its victorious, land-grabbing war with Mexico. Feeling its imperial oats, the young nation decided to build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies...
...records, hardly a swimming meet is held which does not break one. Accordingly, swimming enthusiasts were less than amazed when they read last week that 27 records had been broken by U. S. swimmers in a three-day meet in the Miami Biltmore Hotel's luxurious pool at Coral Gables. More remarkable than the number of records was one of the swimmers who had made them, a 17-year-old Miami high-school boy named Ralph Flanagan. Of the 27 records Flanagan had made ten for distances from 300 yd. to 1,650 yd. His closest rival, famed Eleanor...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a crowd of 300 last week set out to watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made...