Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already on its way down, one ship from New York landed with only its searchlights to feel the way. Two others went to Milwaukee. Still others approached the area slowly, awaiting a lights-on signal. Then one of these, from Fort Worth, with 15 passengers, prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...
...Cadet who gave his names as Stanley C. Scott, from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, will ride "Mr. Jackson," for the two understand each other. As the Honorable Colon (Colonel?) Alfaro, Ecuatdorean Ambassador, presented "Poncho" to the Corps, it is not too surprising to learn that it has been arranged that little Cadet Elroy Alfaro, son of sire Colon, will ride "Poncho...
...misfortunes have already revived a host of rival farm panaceas. Most popular is the long talked of "domestic allotment" plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would organize Statewide opposition...
...poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages on Sullivan's Island, where Fort Moultrie (four times rebuilt) has stood since 1776. Untouched by wind was neighboring Fort Sumter, where the first engagement of the Civil War was fought...
...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...