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...brightly-lighted field and out over adjacent San Francisco Bay. Two or three miles out the plane began banking to the right in the logical maneuver to approach the East-West runway. Suddenly watchers saw it slide into a 45° dive. Instant later it vanished behind a dike between field and bay. There came a tremendous "wham" as the ship plunged...
...towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...Glib Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
...When a dike bursts or God otherwise afflicts her people Queen Wilhelmina is at once upon the scene. Last week she left Amsterdam to her devoted troops and police and went on with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside...