Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap rail-water route from the West Coast to New York. It occurred to few that they had chosen one of the most hazardous months of the year to cross one of the world's most treacherous patches of sea. The Caribbean hurricane season was on, and Gulf fishermen had ominously...
...Captain Sundstrom and his deck force, which distinguished itself for cool efficiency, had all passengers in life belts at boat stations along the lee rail. Boats were swung out to deck level and stewards passed up & down handing out fruit, sandwiches, coffee. And then the wait began. For a full hour passengers stood around for the order to go overside into the howling night. But the order did not come. Captain Sundstrom knew that to put out boats was certain death. The passengers began singing The Man on the Flying Trapeze. As soon as it appeared that the Dixie...
...rival steamboat captain against whom Rogers has a frantic last-reel race with their boats the stake, Cobb is completely relaxed, spending all his time on the bridge leaning on the rail, squatting, lying down, bibbing mint juleps, funneling smoke from long black cigars. When, finally, he believes the race won, he decides to take a nap. Stretching out on the bridge's settee, he closes his eyes, murmurs to the mate: "When I fall asleep, take this cigar out of my mouth. I've burned up four boats already...
...French Somaliland, next door to bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week...
Greyhound got away fast at the rail. Suddenly the field, which had passed the starter well bunched and trotting smoothly, scattered in complete confusion. Pedro Tipton and Tilly Tonka broke first, and then, on the first turn, Lawrence Hanover. As the horses trotted into the first leg of the V-shaped backstretch, the crowd groaned because Warwell Worthy had opened up a gap of 15 lengths. Although Greyhound was almost the same distance ahead of the rest, it looked as if the shortest priced Hambletonian favorite in years was now doomed to lose the heat...