Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tender. The baggage car coupling snapped like thread. The vacuum sucked coach after coach up from the track, lifted them like a giant's playthings through the air, flopped them down on their sides along the right-of-way. As the storm swirled away eastward, torrents of rain fell upon a wreck unique in U. S. railroading...
...Louis Schneider: the annual 500-mile automobile race at Indianapolis, when the car driven by Billy Arnold, who won last year, lost a wheel, collided with another car and caught fire near the finish. Rain, which made the track slippery, delayed the start for two hours but no drivers were killed: 17 out of 40 starters finished...
...matter of lanes however, there is little advantage, there being no leeward or windward positions. The water is brought for everyone, or the water is smooth for everyone. The only ones who really suffer from the wind are the spectators, that is, if the wind is accompanied by rain, for the observation train here is exposed to the elements...
These words were hardly out of Sheriff Blair's mouth before three carloads of his men were ambushed from behind piles of railroad ties along the road out of Evarts. Under a rain of lead two deputy sheriffs dropped dead, two others fell severely wounded. A commissary clerk was also killed. Though the deputies sprayed the ambush with their automatic rifles, they got only one of the 100 attackers. Sheriff Blair was alarmed. No longer confident that he could handle "this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition...
...forced landings. But not Farmer E. S. Porter of Hot Springs, Va. Last week Farmer Porter wrote to David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, to tell airmen who fly over his place "to land anywhere on me regardless of crops. You know with any rain at all you can grow a crop in three months, but it takes 21 years to grow...