Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fishermen twelve miles off the Louisiana mainland in Caillou Bay are inclined to swear when they come in sight of what looks like a gigantic harbor buoy sticking up between two scows. A structure they think improper to the high seas, this is no buoy but one of several oil derricks erected in the bay by Texas Co. Called "deep-sea drilling," Texaco's operations are in water no deeper than 25 ft., but geophysical crews mapping off-shore contours often have to take dynamite soundings. The fishermen claim that any fish not killed or scared clean to Cuba...
...Oahu, could hold off the attackers for eight days, the U. S. Fleet would have time to arrive from the continent. If the attackers could land troops, capture the island of Oahu and the great naval station of Pearl Harbor in less than eight days the fleet from the mainland would arrive too late...
...happy day dawned. Through the town of Matsue in Shimone prefecture swept a raging fire which burnt to ashes more than 400 houses, a hospital, a school, many business offices, deprived 1,500 of their homes. Korea, Japan's mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the Keishonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki...
Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record...
...flock of sheep to 30,000. Son of a Honolulu sugar and cattle man, he fought in the French artillery after college, returned to San Francisco to buy a New York Stock Exchange seat, which he sold before Depression, retiring to Hawaii. Now he is returning to the mainland to educate his three sons...