Word: lagoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From a structural standpoint it is preeminently stage design, fakery. Two big hangar buildings of steel and concrete and an administration building, all permanent fixtures of the new airport, are exceptions to this rule, and greatest exception of all is the Federal Building, separated from the rest by a lagoon and a parade ground. This is the work of San Francisco's genial, hardbitten, unpredictable Timothy Ludwig Pflueger...
...fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests in most available airport property...
...them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets him ?5,000, storms.a French battery on the east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon, on a night attack, steals another prize, lying under the guns of Port Vendres and winds up his exploits-for which he is severely censured by his admiralty-maneuvering the Sutherland close to shore and shattering infantry columns with his broadsides...
...Zach's Bay, the lagoon back of Jones Beach, New York's most efficient public playground 30-odd miles out of Manhattan on Long Island, a 136-ft. by 82-ft. stage was moored opposite a stand seating 10,000 people. There last week opened a season of opera and musicomedy, managed by Fortune Gallo of the San Carlo Opera Company. First performance was Roberta, which the audience beheld from a considerable distance, heard mainly through loudspeakers...
...Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect for a plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport...