Word: gale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blimp in a Gale. When the wind over Manhattan whipped up to gale force Pilot Prescott Dixon of the Goodyear blirnp Columbia decided to get back to earth...
...whose table sugars (Domino and Franklin) are 25% of the total U. S. cane output. Also great was Spreckels Sugar Corp. whose tablets (Caneheart) were 6%. Depression has hit both companies. Last fortnight American Sugar, whose chairman Earl D. Babst has no faith in stabilization projects, bowed to the gale and cut its dividend from $5 to $4. And last week the same gale toppled Spreckels Sugar into a receivership...
Peerless hero of U. S. mariners is Captain Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale as he hunted the Great White Whale, Moby Dick, who had cost him a leg. Last week U. S. mariners heard a voice reminiscent of the great mad Ahab-almost...
...half past four toward evening of Monday, Nov. 2. While I was sailing with all sails drawing under a half gale from the north in Chesapeake Bay, I was under a lee shore. The sun was sinking. To my surprise the glare on the water became unbearable to my sight. (I was steering a westerly course.) I looked up at the mainsail. What a shock! It had turned from white to black. An optical illusion, of course. The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned...
...American Airways flying boat on the regular Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...