Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been openly conducted, without the slightest attempt at secrecy, always keeping 2,000 yards beyond the utmost range of American coast-defense batteries. The only disturbing feature of this phase of Japanese naval activity is how Japanese espionage agents have so accurately learned the extreme shooting range of the shore batteries...
...Pierre, S. Dak., and learned that he was a father. Though prairie schooners no longer cross that formidable State, it is still for many miles as empty and lonely as the sea, and as barren of telephone poles. The man at the Indian agency was receiving a kind of shore-to-ship communication on which 5,000 ranch families depend...
...high morale of our men in the service. The Solace, the first hospital ship to be added to the U. S. Navy since World War days, has been fitted out as a modern 432 bed hospital, the equal of the most completely equipped hospital of its size on shore. While the Bureau of Navigation has supplied us with as many books as it has been able to do, I think you can appreciate the fact that the men in Sick Bay, in the various wards, etc., need almost a different book each day in order to keep them occupied...
...fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where in 1900 a hurricane and tidal wave killed 6,000, sandbags were piled before doorways, windows boarded...
...Society's $1,275,000 purchase of a La Salle Street office building, in several other spectacular deals. Last week's was tops to date; Rubloff calls it "Chicago's biggest real-estate deal in three decades." Tall and trim, Rubloff lives in the fashionable Lake Shore Drive Hotel, spends weekends raising flowers and Gordon setters on a 314-acre Wisconsin estate which he bought two years ago for $300,000. On the estate are 40 acres of woods which Rubloff calls "the national park...