Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...
Next day, while in Christ Church a lay reader with simple prayer kept unbroken the chain of Sunday services which John Wesley began, a schoolman, Headmaster G. C. Durand of Sea Island School, declared that there were "many dives" in the county. Dr. Lee, concerned over them, had said: "Some great tragedy will have to occur before Glynn County will have law and order." Said Headmaster Durand: "This looks like the tragedy...
...defaulted Public Works bonds, a faith which has inched the bonds from a record low 19¾ in 1933 to 74⅞ early this year, was climaxed politically in Havana last week. The bottom of 19! was hit soon after Dictator Gerardo Machado was forced to flee the island following the 1933 revolt. Eight years before he had embarked on an ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely financed by $60,000,000 borrowed from New York's Chase National Bank...
...Four years ago, when his ship, the Chelyuskin, had been squeezed, broken and sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded Professor Schmidt prepared to lead a rescue party. Whether planes could land in the ice-choked water beside the floe was problematical, so three icebreaker ships were also ordered to accompany the plane...
About the time that Peter Stnyvesant's $24 island and began to realize there was something west of the Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...