Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs on the cup, and the French Line's Normandie, which had none. While tenders and excursion boats followed in their wake and thousands of spectators watched from the shore what has become the harbor's native sporting event, the Conte di Savoia's long-keeled boat paced the W. C. Teagle's two nautical miles over the grey harbor swell, came...
...weeks out the favorable breeze freshened to a furious gale that threw the little bark high ashore on "an uninhabited and dangerous reef known as Wake Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty...
Ever since Pan American Airways established tiny Wake Island as the third stop to & from China, the airport's chief ornamental feature has been an old anchor. Corroded by decades of salt water, its flukes almost rusted away, the ancient piece of iron rises seven feet above a rough concrete base in the centre of "The Park" between the landing stage and hotel. But until last week nobody was able to tell passengers much about Wake's old anchor...
Last week, P.A.A. announced that Section Superintendent George Waldo Bicknell, book-browsing in Honolulu, had solved the mystery of Wake's anchor and uncovered a sea story as epic as the voyage of Captain Bligh of the Bounty. As builder and first airport manager at Wake, Colonel Bicknell discovered the anchor imbedded upright in the coral reef mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest...
...Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great as that of last June, Wall Street morale touched a new low for recovery, and brokers began holding a premature wake over fall business prospects...