Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro Castle passed through a maritime horror unequalled since the Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes (TIME...
...65th running of the Travers Stakes, oldest horse race in the U. S.; by four lengths, with Collateral second; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Earl Leonard Mefford's trotter Lord Jim: the Hambletonian Stake, richest ($26,000) trotting race in the U. S.; by winning two heats out of four, with Muscletone second, and Princess Peg third, with one heat each; at Goshen...
...heat was hard upon the flesh, drought was harder on the spirit. As he went into the "secondary" drought zone in Montana, Lawrence Westbrook, assist ant to Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins, boarded the train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never...
...hero to find his homeland turned into a half-Sahara. But even passing through the dull, dun, desiccated lands, he was a hero, for after him came RAIN. Within a few hours of his passing, showers followed along his route through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota. Within three days the heat broke and rain fell, heavy rain, prolonged rain?from Colorado to Kentucky?sopping the dust, promising to save the remnant of this season's crops...
Mystic Roerich's job will be to guide two experts from the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry through Central Asia to the rim of the Gobi Desert. There grow plants hardy enough to survive a summer heat of 100°, a winter cold of -40°, an annual rainfall of less than 16". From these he will help choose grasses and shrubs which can grow in the baking, shifting midlands...