Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this first zone there is an annual rainfall of 200 inches, and the dense tropical growth harbors the highly colored birds of the tropics. Sixty miles from the coast the scene changed, and they entered a tropical desert, with a completely different group of birds, and cactus and mesquite plants such as the traveller finds in the vicinity of Tuscon, Arizona...
...miner, rancher, realtor, newshawk. During the War he was with Allenby's army in Palestine, with famed Col. Thomas Ed- ward Lawrence in Arabia. (Say partisans of Lawrence: it was partly to correct misstatements of Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia that Lawrence wrote his Revolt in the Desert.) After the War he accom- panied the Prince of Wales on a tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army's world flight (1924). Last February he returned from a long trip through wildest Asia. Says he: "I have never been bored for five minutes...
...have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first railroads were thrown across the western deserts of the U. S. Oldtime "desert rats" swarmed into a small town which had boomed because of its geological location (TIME, Feb. 10). Gaming tables and coin-in-slot pianos were prevalent. There was rough carnival in the atmosphere. Notably missing among the celebrants were officials from Arizona, only Colorado River...
...funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes it ridiculous or by the presence of a character who does not belong in it. As a taxidriver, a ship's steward, and finally a castaway on a desert island, Oakie through the rambling plot has nothing to satirize; the only way that he can satirize the tedious job of being funny all the time is by being inadvertently dull for long stretches. People who find the picture outmoded in its song and chorus numbers may be reminded that...
...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...