Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed, resort business washed out. A naval bombing plane, rain-blinded, crashed in Connecticut with three fatalities. At Liberty, N. Y., 25,000 tenpins worth $1 each were swept away-along with a shed where they were stored...
While the East drowned, the Northwest prayed for rain. From Mt. Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests. In ten days, 17,000 acres of National Forests had burned and thousands more burn every day. Near Ryderwood, Wash., 35.000 acres of timber went up. Dry electric storms were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National...
...friend & collaborator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose island adjoins his off the coast of France, Dr. Alexis Carrel told a French newshawk: "I pray you, do not try to see him. Since the great misfortune and trial that befell him, Colonel Lindbergh has changed a great deal. He is hypersensitive and wants only quiet and to be forgotten. Do not harass him. He has suffered enough. Leave him alone...
...Long Island, arb colonies are few and far between. At crowded, middle-class Long Beach, the work of the late, great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing...
With 1,500 gallons of gas in the tanks, America's most purposeful playboy, Howard Hughes, at the controls, and a wad of gum on her tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...