Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same head-over-heels haste President Roosevelt had started another relief project at the other end of the Atlantic seaboard. Day after the S. S. Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...
...coral reef surrounding an ocean depth of some...
Last Labor Day 233 unhappy vacationists bound from New Orleans to New York aboard the S. S. Dixie found themselves caught between life and death when a hurricane grounded that Morgan liner on French Reef in the Florida Keys (TIME, Sept. 16). Next morning in Washington President Roosevelt, master of the psychological moment, announced that $5,000,000 in relief money would be spent in starting a trans-Florida ship canal that would forever make it unnecessary for seagoers to risk their lives in circumnavigating Florida's long, hurricane-blistered thumb...
Senator Fletcher bundled his 76 years into a taxicab, went to the White House to see Franklin Roosevelt. Whether Senator Fletcher's call or Mr. Hills's political pressure elsewhere turned the trick, the fact remained that, day after the Dixie grounded on French Reef, Franklin Roosevelt opened the canal game with an ante...
Last week, 124 of the 231 went back, cooing with pleasure, to these same public rooms for a reunion unique in shipwreck history. Pulled off the reef, the Dixie. had been completely repaired in jig-time at a cost of $468,000. Ready to return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered...