Word: gales
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Five TV stations promptly contracted for 13 weeks of the new package. In Hollywood, Frederic & Phillips began shooting five-minute films at the rate of four a day, with such stars as Bonita Granville and Gale Page. They hired a $500-a-week screenwriter to flesh out the plots (picked up in the free-lance market at $50 a plot). The California Bank advanced $50,000 to finance a second 13-week series and, last week, stations in Grand Rapids and Nashville signed up, bringing to 17 the number of TV stations now carrying the show. Says Frederic...
...cubes turned out to be the only source of water they had. The inexperienced crewmen could not row back to the Amphitrite. Neither could they make the shore. Pushed by the current and the 40-m.p.h. gale from the northeast, they drifted helplessly southwestward, parallel to the shoreline...
Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...
...week's end, the gale of speculation set up by Ike's visit and Krock's column was still blowing. It was a good thing that Krock, in advance, had warned the American people to brace themselves...
Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...