Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saddest of all was Louisville, Ky. which has virtually no hills. Three-fourths of the city, at flood crest, was inundated. Its business and residential districts alike were in water, its Negro shanties and mansions of the rich. Its electricity was off, its power-station partly submerged in the yellow flood. Over 230,000 Louisville people were homeless, at least 200 dead (no official figures), few of them by drowning, most from exposure. Property loss was estimated...
While matrons unavoidably trampled by police horses were rubbed with liniment, the Duke & Duchess slipped off from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
...went sailing down the Ohio as onlookers stood helpless on the bank. The Norfolk & Western abandoned service when floods east of the city washed out the right of way at Clear Creek, near the Little Miami River. Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged. An even greater danger threatened the waterfront when oil tanks in Mill Creek Valley tore loose from their foundations, began floating around and slopping their fluid on the rising waters...
...Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen floating down the White River. Kentucky's Green, Kentucky and other rivers, fed by continuing downpours, were still rising at week's end. Louisville was the hardest hit city in the whole flood area. Sitting on comparatively level ground where the Ohio...
Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...