Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, where freakish twisters were still coursing along the Alabama-Mississippi boundary and last week killed ten people and wrecked hundreds of houses, driving rains brought most creeks and rivers to flood stage, some beyond. Onto Whitestone Mountain in northwest Georgia descended a mighty cloudburst that sounded like Niagara, rushed down to destroy the tiny quarry town of Whitestone (pop. 200), where a family of 13 were drowned in one house...
Poliomyelitis has struck about 30% more frequently than the five-year average. So far the epidemic has been confined to the South. The number of cases is about 10% more than last year when the epidemic spread up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, across the Niagara frontier from Toronto to Buffalo...
...days when tradition made it obligatory for U. S. honeymooners to go to Niagara Falls, they did their most effective mooning at the local Wonder of the World from 1,248-ft. Falls View Bridge. Closest to the falls of the three bridges that span the Niagara River in that area, it was something of a wonder itself. It trembled in the wind, shook under heavy loads, but for 39 years managed to keep from crashing into the 200-ft. canyon below...
...bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges were under way within a few hours of the crash...
...press conference one morning last week, Franklin Roosevelt sprang one of those dramatic surprises which take away the breath even of those who see him frequently. Having just disposed of a question about the international difficulties of preserving the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls, the President blandly announced that he had found a memorandum on utilities left with him last November by Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie (TIME, Dec. 6). At that time Mr. Willkie had a long talk with the President, leaving him with a brief, specific plan for composing their difficulties...