Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a spell of stormy weather, the surface of Lake Michigan was calm off the shore near Holland, Mich., one sunny, windless day last week. Without warning a huge, smooth wall of water, at least ten feet high according to witnesses, rolled in from the lake, smashed the shoreline. Other big waves followed. Scores of rescues were made along miles of waterfront. Five persons were swept out into the lake by a ferocious undertow and drowned...
...question for meteorologists and geologists was, what caused this wall of water which, if it had occurred at sea, would have been called a "tidal wave"? Engineers of the U. S. Lake Survey at Detroit advanced several hypotheses. One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake...
...River battle front last week the Japanese marked up another victory. Held back for a fortnight by Chinese booms across the river at Matang and Matowchen, Japanese warships ploughed upriver, finally blasted Chinese defenders from Hukow. Capture of Hukow, lying at the top of China's second largest lake, Lake Poyang, gives the Japanese a jumping-off place for two drives on Hankow. One route leads down the navigable lake to Nanchang, main Chinese air base which was severely bombed last week, then across country to the vital Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight...
Around the shores of blue Lake Léman, dividing France and Switzerland, lie historic international conference cities, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Nyon. Last week, the gay French resort of Evian-les-Bains was added to the list as delegates from 32 nations, including three world powers (U. S., France, Britain), four British Dominions (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire), most of the Latin American nations and several smaller European powers, there set up headquarters in the luxurious Hotel Royal. They came in answer to President Roosevelt's invitation, issued soon after Germany annexed Austria, to see what could be done...
...year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more efficiently, with less...