Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is the U. S.'s sky-high Hawley-Smoot Tariff, to the enactment of which Canada retorted with retaliatory tariffs (TIME, Sept. 29, 1930). Already this mischief, furthered by Depression, has gone so far that U. S. exports to Canada have fallen thus...
...crew, a tropical scene by the daughter of an officer in Panama. Not removed from its place of honor in the control car was the photograph of Mrs. Coolidge which she had inscribed: "To the good ship Los Angeles from her sponsor mother. 'Go forth under the open sky and may the winds of heaven deal gently with thee...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...
...strange drone grew out of the southern sky. The Yawalapiti children ceased playing. The adults stopped working and talking. The droning thing became visible very high up in the sky. It looked like a dragon fly. But it was bigger than a condor. The amazed Yawalapiti watched it circle down upon their village with a snarl louder than the snarl of any jaguar that ever lived...
...This morning the Akron and her personnel said 'so long' to camp life and our efficient Marine Corps ground crew and soared into a spotted sky of blue and white, breaking fog for the return flight to Lakehurst. . . . Very soon the first of the Akron's planes was hooked on and stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast...