Word: downstream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were the sectors where the worst of the flood had passed. Downstream, men were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture...
...recent discovery of an arrow sticking suspiciously far up in the Lowell House tower can be linked to an equally intriguing bit of news relayed us by one of our spies. While rowing up the river in a shell he was amused to see a shiny new arrow floating downstream followed by another, equally new and every bit as shiny. After really going to town on the problem he learned that they were two of three purchased, together with a "Robin Hood" standard brand bow, from Sears, Roebuck. The two in the river were the results of bad marksmanship...
Sliding the ship into the slot cut for her on the opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...
...submerged. Police ferried 6,000 citizens in rowboats to dry land. Thirteen people were drowned, four killed when a gas explosion blew their house to bits. Surging through the streets of West Virginia and Ohio towns on either bank, the crest rolled on toward Cincinnati and Louisville. But most downstream Ohio River cities, forewarned, experienced and well fortified with dikes and levees, viewed the flood with small concern...
Over half the Crimson's total tally of runs was earned, although many were gifts on the Engineers' six errors and on the six walks issued by Roberts, the twirler from downstream...