Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reorganization, Representatives with their ears to the ground, sensing that the President's plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Government, was one of. his few unpopular proposals (see p. 14), shelved it, went home without doing or attempting to do anything about...
...game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of nature-rains & flood -washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations...
...floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue or death on whatever dry ground they could find. Thousands huddled miserably on the high right-of-way of the Lunghai Railroad, which for months has been a fulcrum for the see-sawing central China warfare...
...Same afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., the biggest U. S. land plane ever built, Douglas Aircraft's 32¼-ton, 42-passenger DC-4 had its first trial flight. Day before it had been close to disaster, when one of its massive doughnut tires sprang a leak during ground tests...
This day all three tires of the new-fangled tricycle, or nosewheel, landing gear were firm.† DC-4 glistened in the sun, its four 1.400 horsepower motors thumping idly. In climbed Pilot Carl Cover. The great ship surged forward, took off in less than twelve seconds. On the ground, Douglas craftsmen threw their hats in the air, slapped each other on the back. In the air DC-4 stayed for an hour and a half, then landed gently where it had started...