Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight before (TIME, June 10). She averaged 29.68 knots for the westward transatlantic course, then 30.31 knots for the run home. Best previous average was Rex's 28.92 knots on the longer South Atlantic route. Last week Normandie's time from Ambrose Lightship to Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg, a 200-mile longer course) for the eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic...
WALDEMAR LINDGREN: A geologist to whom all men turn for knowledge of the metallic secrets hidden in the rock...
...became a small-town lawyer. He did not again emerge into public life until 1914 when he was elected Mayor of Somersworth, was later appointed U. S. District Attorney by Woodrow Wilson. In 1922 he gained a second brief lease on fame by being elected the Democratic Governor of rock-ribbed Republican New Hampshire. After his term of office, he became a member of New Hampshire's Public Service Commission. In 1932 another startling victory at the polls elevated him again to fame. By less than 2,000 votes out of some 200,000 cast, he beat critical, caustic...
...Paris first-class fiscal minds saw no humorous side. The decision of Parliament last week was for deflation, sound money-and to achieve these in rock-ribbed surety Premier Laval must subject France to a terrific test of budget paring, drastic economy and supreme reliance on the ultimate ability of the Capitalist system under democracy to bring back not boom prosperity-France has never had that-but tolerable times. The budgetary deficit stood at at least 10 billion francs or $660,000,000. Under the new emergency-powers law Premier Laval, assuming that Parliament shortly adjourns for the summer...
Dredging more than two thousand feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a Harvard University expedition has succeeded in taking fossil-bearing rock in place on the cliffs of the North American continental shelf for the first time, and has discovered evidence which upsets existing ideas as to the long geologic period of stability and quiet which was supposed to have continued unbroken since the Palaeozoic age, 160,000,000 years...