Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...
Other CWA projects now in progress: 4,464 Indians to repair their own houses on Indian Reservations; 1,104 to excavate prehistoric Indian mounds for the Smithsonian Institution; 211 men to pull up seaside and swamp morning-glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
...spite of increasingly prohibitive scholastic standards the volume and pressure of students come up and swamp the medical schools. The facilities of the schools are inadequate to meet the number and only the most excellent students are taken...
...they make the manifestation unmistakable by contributing either time or money to the scheme. Of money small contributions in large numbers are needed. Of time much must be donated to handle the large number of small contributions, as well as to carry the burden of administration, which threatens to swamp the small committee now at work...
MURDER IN TRINIDAD - John W. Vandercook-Crime Club ($2). Practically forced into crime, a young professor follows the footsteps of an international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive...