Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his plane roar through the still clear air above the Mojave Desert. He paused at Albuquerque, again at Kansas City, zoomed above more nickering towns, fields and villages, landed in a splash of mud at Cleveland. There were thunderstorms between Cleveland and Newark. He crouched in his cockpit while the rain scarred the edges of the wings. When he landed his tiny secretly built Laird biplane in Newark, 11 hr. 16 min. and 10 sec. after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks...
...about the properties under President Hoover in geography books. Stockholders also needed geographies to study the properties under President Ohrstrom. They are almost coextensive. The properties of Tri-Utilities' four big subsidiaries (and their subsidiaries) extend from waterworks for householders in Flatbush to power lines in the Arizona desert, from mains of natural gas in Atlanta and Birmingham to acres of gas wells in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. All were listed by President Ohrstrom's accountants, under the head of Total Assets in 1929 and at the end of 1930, when Depression had lifted its hungry head...
...present only to the innocent party in a divorce for adultery (TIME, May 4). One astute, conservative Episcopal leader who will not be present to discuss this canon is Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. He was resting under doctor's orders last week at Mt. Desert, seaside resort in Maine. He had not yet declared himself on the canon. To make his influence felt at the convention, last week was a good time to say something. To The Living Church (high-church) and The Southern Churchman (low-church) he wrote...
...military works. But here again the Laborites ran against a stone wall. Britain's great extravagance is the Dole. Liberals, Conservatives, businessmen, were demanding that it be cut. Trades union leaders and left-wing Laborites cried just as loudly that if the Dole was cut they would desert the party, kick out the Government. Cabinet meetings went on day after day. On a final Dole vote, right and left Laborites split 12 to 8, Foreign Minister Henderson and First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander leading the Left...
...Nevada desert the summer temperature ranges between 100° and 120°. In the diversion tunnels on the canyon floor it averages 10° to 20° higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...