Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard's thumb. Then the young man in the white suit went down under a rain of submachine gun bullets...
...growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...policeman: "Move on." Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent the night right here!" bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped a towel around...
...mind to travel faster on land than anyone else, Sir Malcolm Campbell immediately found himself faced by a corollary problem: where to do it? He spent five years inspecting beaches & deserts, finally picked out Daytona Beach, Fla. as the place best suited to his purposes. Wind and rain last spring delayed his sprint for weeks, finally prevented Sir Malcolm from making more than a picayune world's record of 276 m.p.h. He began the search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future, it was at least clear last week that...
...part of the dried-up bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville which once covered most of northwestern Utah. For 200 square miles the residual salt is as flat as a concrete highway, so hard that iron tent-stakes often bend when driven in. In the winter two inches of rain cover the flats, leave a fresh, white, marble-smooth surface in the spring. There is no dust. Moisture in the salt cools friction-heated tires. The salt's resistance minimizes skidding. There are two concentric circular tracks at Bonneville, one twelve and a half miles around, the other...