Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rain-flooded creeks rose menacingly around Smackover last week, did a million dollars dam age to surrounding oil fields. Its city hall be came relief headquarters. Measles developed in its refugee camp. A woman bore a child while floating downstream on a raft. The Red river raged with high water. An Arkansas tornado snorted through Elaine, left 17 dead behind...
...Rain and lack of vitalizing issues kept Oregon's primary vote last week to the lowest on record. Results: Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary renominated, to oppose onetime Democratic Congressman Elton Watkins; George Joseph. Republican State Senator, apparently nominated for Governor, to oppose (apparently) Democrat Edward F. Bailey...
Pilots flying the night mail through fog and rain that blanket all ground lights, follow a trail of dots and dashes which flow from radio range-beacons into their earphones. But sounds are sometimes deceiving, subject to radio interference. Skill is required to compare the relative strength of opposing signals. And at 15-minute intervals the guiding stream of signals are interrupted completely for broadcast weather reports...
...Madman" for his nerve, set out to capture the glory that had eluded his friend Carranza. In a special Emsco monoplane bought by public subscription, Sidar and Lieut. Carlos Rovirosa would fly from Cerro Loco (Crazy Hill) 5,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, the longest nonstop flight ever attempted. Rain and winds loomed in the South. Madman Sidar laughed. Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned...
...repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come through the gate is a baby, the second a kitten, finally the bride, to the stirring strains of the "Internationale." Best shot: priests, farmers, woman, and cripples, marching with ikons and incense through the scorched fields, asking God for rain...