Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there...
...Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire city block. Mrs. Helen E. Lewis, Republican nominee for Connecticut Secretary of State, was drowned with her husband when their island cottage at Stony Creek was swept away...
...Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
With reports from all over this area bringing in news such as that of the New Hampshire State Forester that he had not seen a single pine tree standing between Concord and the southern state line, and with the fallen timber rapidly drying, National Guard units prepared to keep tourists out of the district and take all possible precautions...
...extent of the fire hazard in the shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...