Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many boys raised in Iowa go to sea, fewer still become admirals. Perhaps William Daniel Leahy would today be a corn-hog farmer if his Iowan parents had not moved when he was still young to Ashland, Wis., on the shore of Lake Superior. As it was, when he graduated from high school he wangled an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, and last week President Roosevelt announced that, effective Jan. 1 Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Commander of the Battle Force, will be Chief of Naval Operations, No. 1 U. S. sailor. He will succeed Admiral William Harrison Standley...
...Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known. If the biggest of battleships hit one of the main piers at full speed, the bridge would only quiver, the ship would be telescoped. The world's greatest...
...favorite pastime among pirates of the Spanish Main was to set men adrift in small boats or maroon them on desert islands. Caja de Muertos (Coffin) Island, a few miles off the southern shore of Puerto Rico, is supposed to be the original of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, on which, as every schoolboy knows, pirates marooned Ben Gunn. Last week, out of the ocean near Coffin Island came reports of an amazing revival of such piratical practice...
...Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
...Boldly Playwright Clifford Bax offered this week at a London little theatre his new piece The King and Mistress Shore. Jane Shore was the mistress of King Edward IV and after his death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed...