Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China. Sixteen typhoons have struck at Shanghai during the past summer. All have missed. Last week, as the rain-flooded Whangpoo River overflowed into Shanghai's business district, a 17tth typhoon approached to within 40 mi. of the city, then turned northwest. Toward nightfall, the typhoon changed its direction, aimed for Shanghai. Blowing with cyclonic force, it piled up mountainous seas at the mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having...
...Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire...
...Lindberghs bade farewell to friends in Tokyo, flew around a typhoon to Osaka for a brief visit in Kyoto on their way to Nanking...
...Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite the season's worst typhoon, Secretary Hurley went ashore at the jetty, reviewed a battalion of U. S. Marines, got soaking wet. Under a Chinese umbrella Mrs. Hurley shopped in Nanking Road, marveled at bargains due to the low exchange rate. And finally last week after 24 days' journeying the President Cleveland steamed into...
...typhoon season. After furious storms, the Grand Canal (running north and south between Hangchow and Tientsin) gave way in 15 places and washed out the thriving city of Yang-chow; 200.000 were reported killed, 6,000,000 more made homeless...