Word: locusts
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...hero of this exciting novel is not human. Its hero is a storm. This storm lived twelve days. It became as large, before it was done, as the U.S. Its snows and rains and brutal airs brought death directly to 14 people, indirectly to hundreds; destroyed billions of locust eggs and averted a plague; ended a drought, flooded a valley, threatened the city of Sacramento; endangered an airplane, stalled a crack train. Before it died it gave birth to another storm which, in its ripeness, did spectacular work in New York City. In its birth, its life, its reproduction...
...mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...
...week appointed a new Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, a few settled matrons, now going on 45, were able to turn back to their memory books and heave a historical sigh. They were women who in July 1916, were young belles at Long Island's fashionable Locust Valley...
...this and more befell the boys who trained with the Yale Unit at Locust Valley in 1916. Under Calvin Coolidge two new sub-Cabinet posts were set up: Assistant Secretaries of War and of Navy for Aeronautics. To the first Trubee Davison was appointed. To the second, three years later, David Ingalls...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...