Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charleston's tornadoes in trio were not unusual, nor were they related to the hurricane which struck farther up the northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists...
...satisfy the need of more office space, since previously all professors in the field have been conflicted to a single office on the ground floor, four new rooms were created upstairs. In addition the building received a complete paint job on the interior...
...airlines of the future, most aeronautical engineers agree, will fly swiftly and serenely far above turbulent weather in the rarefied air of the substratosphere. Already air transports are being built with cabins in which, by supercharging, interior atmospheric pressure approximating that aground can be maintained at substratosphere levels. Mainly responsible for development of a supercharged cabin was the U. S. Army Air Corps. Last week the Air Corps received from President Roosevelt this year's Collier Trophy for "the greatest achievement in aviation whose value has been demonstrated in actual use." Meantime, aeronautical science has its sleeves rolled...
...future city" is a large shopping center, with stores arrayed like the cells of a honeycomb fronting the interior of a huge hollow rectangle. A wide continuous ramp runs around this great courtyard from bottom...
...them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from Hankow. Foreign observers last week estimated that at least 60% of the machinery from the steel, iron, rice, flour and oil plants in the Hankow area had been moved into the interior. Along with the machinery went the thousands of workers...