Word: typhooned
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...Philippines in 1933 when the dollar was cut loose from gold. In that year 14,658 Philippine gold claims were staked. The Philippine gold mining business, which had only been coming into its own about the time Depression hit, went zooming. A boom in gold stocks swept like a typhoon through Manila. Then the stock boom collapsed, as such booms do, but not the mining business...
...junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow to the proud 18th Century shipbuilders of Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate. A Chinese junk, for all its uncouth lines, is one of the most seaworthy ships ever built. Most of them are also among the dirtiest ships ever sailed. That fact, however, need not worry Subscribing Shipmates. The plans that reached Shanghai last week were...
...added interest, there is a large cargo of gold in close juxtaposition to a hold full of Chinese pirates dressed up as prostitutes. Thus you can see that even without a typhoon to contend with, Captain Gable is in for a fairly rough trip...
Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
That the election was featured by the loss of only two lives, no more than the typhoon took, was partly owing to red-headed Governor General Frank Murphy of Detroit. The way he and the constabulary kept peace at the polls came in for high commendation from white residents, who were additionally encouraged by Senor Quezon's pledge to "follow the precedents set by the American Governors General during more than three decades." Peppery President-reject Aguinaldo declared the election returns "incredible," swore that he was "not through yet. . . . I have no doubt that electoral manipulations, shielded by official protection...