Word: grebe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...
Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
...eliminated. Charles Freshman, Kolster, Brandes, Ware, Freed-Elsemann, Thompson, Bel-Canto, Sleeper, Themiodyne, are no longer names to be reckoned with. The industry has been concentrated into fewer, stronger hands, some of which are pioneer survivors. Old firms still strong include Atwater Kent, Philco, Grigsby-Grunow, Stromberg-Carlson, Crosley, Grebe, Andrea Inc., Gulbransen...