Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes, from the time Franklin Roosevelt entered the robing room in the Senate wing of the Capitol to the time he went out to take the oath. Outside, under a sea of ineffective umbrellas, several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet...
...Friday a parade of some 2,000 Relief malcontents straggled up to the White House in the rain, sent in a delegation to demand a 20% wage increase. Franklin Roosevelt was not there. An hour before, he had closed his office, gone into seclusion to work on his Second Inaugural Address...
...device that TWA was demonstrating at the moment WAE's plane was crashing is similar to Pan American's. Called "the radio direction-finder and anti-rain-static loop antennae," it was developed by TWA's communications department under Engineer John Curtis Franklin. Radio direction-finders are not new, come in a half-dozen makes (TIME, March 25, 1935). In general they are doughnut-shaped loops sticking through the fuselage. By turning the loop and listening, the pilot can learn the direction of any radio station, for when the loop faces directly toward the station the signals...
Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...
...Jonah" showed a profit slightly in excess of $100, whereas its predecessor, "The Wind and the Rain," produced last year, only went into the black by about $10. Past plays have either lost heavily or just barely broken even...