Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Official Cognizance. Hearing these murmurs, Secretary Kellogg took heed. He well remembered the storm that broke when Count Karolyi was admitted to this country to visit his sick Countess but forbidden political utterances (TIME, Mar. 2). He considered what might be done in the case of this Parsee with the unpronounceable name, Shapurji Saklatvala. Secretary Hughes had had his Karolyi, but Secretary Kellogg did not want a Saklatvala for a Karolyi...
...ship's control cabin were 16 men including the master of the vessel, gallant, air-tested Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. For two hours they had fought their ship this way and that through a series of pesky squalls. They had released helium. They had dumped into the storm their water-balast...
...Storm worst we have encountered to date...
...Members of crew called from gondola pit and sent into runway to aid in keep ship on even keel . . . Lightning increasing in intensity. Hope to ride out storm soon. . . Pleasant City seen in distance. . . wind increasing in volume, get chance to?...
Greater than his triumph was his faith. Lansdowne declared, not one, but many times, that dirigibles could be built to withstand any storm, that the Shenandoah was so built. But he told his wife-before his last trip that the one thing which could break the ship was the line-squall?the conflict of warm and cold shafts of air, pressing from below and above. He knew that such storms occurred near the locality where he was killed, for at Greenfield, Ohio, he was born 37 years...