Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane roar through the still clear air above the Mojave Desert. He paused at Albuquerque, again at Kansas City, zoomed above more nickering towns, fields and villages, landed in a splash of mud at Cleveland. There were thunderstorms between Cleveland and Newark. He crouched in his cockpit while the rain scarred the edges of the wings. When he landed his tiny secretly built Laird biplane in Newark, 11 hr. 16 min. and 10 sec. after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks a year...
...young, dull or brilliant, Mr. Ohrstrom could scarcely have foreseen in March 1929 that it would rain hardly at all in the summer of 1930. The dryness that year had a desiccating effect upon the revenues of Tri-Utilities' Federal Water Service Corp. This damper summer the president of Federal Water (Christopher Tompkins Chenery) has announced that while earnings are lower, they are steady...
Delegates cheered. Spectators who had paid 25? admission looked puzzled. Some one started singing "The More We Get Together." Rain pattered down on the tent roof. After much debate the brand-new Liberty Party formed a national platform: 1) a five-year moratorium on all private debts, including mortgages; 2) free silver coinage at a 16-to-1 gold ratio; 3) government ownership of all banks; 4) government ownership of public utilities; 5) abolition of taxes; 6) unsecured paper currency. Out of the Liberty Party's platform was kept a "wild suggestion by a St. Louis statistician" that...
...sailed he addressed a rain-soaked multitude. "I see nothing on the horizon," said he despondently, "to warrant hope. I was born an optimist and I am hoping against hope. My faith is in God and He seems to have made my way clear for me to go to London. Therefore I expect that He will use me as His instrument for the service of humanity. For me the service of India is identical with the service of humanity...
...Orleans and Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., in a three-hour match, 4-6, 10-8, 10-12, 8-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. and Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. beat Perry & Hughes 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rain delayed the play for three days. When the courts were finally dry enough for the completion of one of the most surprising rounds on record in a national tournament, Francis Xavier Shields of New York and Sidney B. Wood Jr. beat Doeg & Lott...