Word: dives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country club swimming pool in St. Louis appeared Ray Woods, the professional high-diver who four months ago fractured his spine in a 187-ft. dive off the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (TIME, April 5). He could swim with his arms but his legs are still useless...
...publicize Los Angeles, its Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
What Photographer Powell's photographs neglected to make clear to newspaper readers, who got from them the notion that U. S. fancy-diving was becoming fancier than ever, was what Diver Jump did with her weapons after being photographed with them. The bow & arrow were wired together. The click of the camera was Diver Jump's signal to drop them. By no means a novelty, the "Diana Dive" was invented by Photographer Powell in 1932, when he had Diver Georgia Coleman perform it to publicize the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles...
...French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting to its top speed of 230 m.p.h. and the pilot's ability to dive into clouds to get it past the Rightists, who had given official warning time & again...
...Increased taxes sounds easy but it isn't. . . . The turnip is dry. The Administration has only two real alternatives-to cut spending or to print money. If the price of Government bonds should take a serious nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political...