Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will make or break the relief plan. A short cold summer with excessive rainfall or a long blistering drought can reduce crops to such a point that President Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...
When midnight came and the Akron remained mute behind a curtain of wind, rain and thunder, Lakehurst tried not to worry. The Akron had ridden worse storms than this one appeared to be. Besides, she was at sea, where an airship belongs; not overland, to be twisted apart by line squalls as was the Shenandoah, or beaten into a hillside, as was Britain's R-101. As for her radio, that could easily go wrong with the atmosphere supercharged with electricity. Not until next day did Lakehurst, and the rest of the world, know what good cause...
...hour and 25 minutes behind schedule. Pilot Noel B. Evans, Wartime flyer, of Yarney Speed Lines was bumping his way through a rain squall southeast of San Francisco one night last week. Behind him, in the Lockheed's darkened cabin, sat two nervous passengers taken aboard that afternoon in Los Angeles: a Mr. Herman Brown and a Mrs. Lavelle Lodwick of Hollywood. Driving rain beaded the cabin windows opaquely as the pilot nosed down over suburbs south of Oakland. He was presumably looking for an emergency landing field on which to bring his passengers to safety. Instead, he brought...
While the rain still poured down, investigators found the pilot's metal pencil, buckles and the plane's motor 100 feet away from the embers of the destroyed buildings, tried to piece from charred evidence the precise cause of the year's deadliest crash...
...from worldly care is the pursuit of "ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forest remnant in East Africa, with a view to elucidating the origins of certain genera only known from the Uluguru and Usambara forests, and throwing light upon the dispersal of isolated, sylvicoline forms common to the Cameroon Mountains of the west and the Usambara Mountains of the East Coast." That is what Herpetologist Arthur Loveridge of Harvard University is going to do this year, and he will get something like $2,500 for doing it. Last week he and 37 other scholars...