Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smutting the sky with great streaks of black smoke, a pack of Japanese destroyers swooped down in attack formation last week upon Taku, the bustling port entrance for Tientsin and Peiping. So far as jittery, defenseless Chinese could see, Japan had simply decided to seize Taku, striking as usual without a declaration...
Like Germany's Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Roscoe Turner is partial to fancy uniforms. Last week he wore a red-and-gold helmet, sky-blue tunic, fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots. From Burbank he reached Cleveland in a pouring rain, three minutes behind his 1933 time. The crowd cheered, sirens screamed, Col. Turner cursed. Eight minutes later he headed east again, "poured on the coal," streaked to New York at half the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet, covered the 418 mi. in 1 hr. 24 min., broke his own transcontinental record...
...great Democratic institution. When Carter Glass and the new dealers of 20 years ago created the Federal Reserve System they meant it to be a pillar of sound finance which could not be shaken by the hand of politics or business, which should stand even if the economic sky should fall. What they did not foresee was that, after the economic sky had fallen, a new generation of New Dealers would want not a pillar of stone but a handy wand with which to reconstruct the sky. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
...left the cruiser that had been his home for 33 days, 12,000 miles. On the Portland dock welcoming crowds saw him give a confident toss of the head, watched his well-tanned face glow with self-assured smiles. A few drops of rain fell from a threatening sky upon him in his open...
...women and children in sultry Manhattan, on the broad beaches of Long Island, at windswept Point Judith, R. I. and in leafy Connecticut stared aloft in wide-eyed wonder at a beautiful flying thing, the like of which they had never seen before. Through a blue cloud-flecked sky it wheeled its solitary way round & round in a wide circle over three states...