Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried this chain of horror so far, Producer Zanuck failed to find a pretext to recall The Hurricane...
...Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Charlie Chaplin rowed away from his yacht Panacea to get a little exercise, lost an oar, failed to start his outboard motor, drifted aimlessly for two hours before being rescued...
...most news columns passion triumphed, while reason sat patiently wagging a finger on the editorial page. Typical was the tabloid New York Daily News. Like many another paper, the Daily News printed the French high command's terse, dry bulletins reporting the start of its drive against the German Westwall under headlines like a joyful yell...
...luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours later in Honolulu she stopped briefly, knuckled down to the remaining hops. Last week, seven days, some 7,500 miles from starting point, she taxied across Auckland, New Zealand's handsome, big harbor, fit as a fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm and enthusiastic greeting from our friends 'down under' who welcomed the California Clipper as a precursor of an air service putting...
...Mathieson Alkali announced that its new Lake Charles, La. synthetic salt cake plant would start operations about November 1, thus making the U. S. independent of foreign (especially German) supplies. Chief use of salt cake (sodium sulfate): kraft paper manufacture. >Paperboardcreditors' recoveries on Ivar Kreuger's great debacle...