Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acts as well as words came from the White House as election aftermath. President Hoover summoned Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock back to Washington from San Francisco just as he was sailing for Hawaii (see p. 20). Estimates were prepared on which President Hoover would "recommend to Congress a special emergency appropriation to be applied to a further intensification of public works ... to provide further employment...
West: California v. Nevada, at Berkeley; Colorado v. Utah, at Boulder; Nebraska v. Missouri, at Lincoln; Oregon State v. Oregon, at Corvallis; Southern California v. Hawaii, at Los Angeles; Stanford v. California Tech at Palo Alto; Utah Aggies v. Colorado Aggies, at Logan; Washington v. Washington State, at Seattle...
...Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and New London, Conn., learned they were to be shelved or scrapped. Two headquarters of the mine force heard they were to be abolished in a process of unification. In all, 49 ships were affected by the week's news. Most of them made ready to steam at once...
...Next largest active volcanoes: Alaska's Katmai, 8.4 mi.; Hawaii's Kilauea, 8 mi. Vesuvius measures about one mile...
From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys...