Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the vortex, at Long Island's western end, the violence came from the north and northwest. From Huntington to Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded...
Peter Dammann, Winnetka, Illinois--North Shore Country Day School...
Sermon on the Shore...
...rest of the Democratic ticket lost the county by 52,000 votes. His favorite charge is that Governor Merriam, last week renominated by Republicans, is tied up with the State's big oil companies. He demands that the State take control of oil lands, especially those lying off shore beneath the sea, which are now being tapped by private interests...
...Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark but it had the disadvantage of being separated from Manhattan by a tedious, 15-mile series of traffic snags and bottlenecks...