Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British warships and tenders lay to all week about the buoy that marked the grave of the #47. Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would be no news, the Rodney, with half a gale still heaving her about and with seaplanes flying watch overhead, cast wreaths of white lilies on the sea, fired a salute, steamed away...
Cast and Robert Wood, in the Sikorsky called 'Untin' Bowler, were at Port Burwell, Labrador, last week, trying to get away, detained by bad weather. Crushing ice damaged their anchored ship. A half-gale swept it to sea, a total loss...
...mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
...many statistics published last week, most interesting were skyscraper figures in Skyscraper, house organ of Thompson-Starrett Co., builders. These figures showed that in the U. S. there are 778 buildings of ten or more stories, including 377 buildings of 21 or more stories. New York has more than half the buildings in both classifications. Surprising New York statistic is that more than half the high buildings are between 14th and 59th streets, that Midtown Manhattan has more tall buildings than the famed downtown financial district. The following table shows what U. S. cities contain how many buildings...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...