Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Alabama, Major Lewis A. Dayton, piloting an army plane, waved his hand. Behind him Private Frank Strozier saw the wave. The major flew on, landed at Valparaiso, Fla. aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...
...honest municipal government. The incumbers mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, backed by the Republican, Fusion, and American Labor parties in the city, has managed the affairs of the nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although he rode into office on the wave of a reform movement combined with a split in the Democratic ticket, it now appears that the strongest combine of bosses, Far- of the nation, Flynn of the Bronx Democracy, and the Tammany Tiger will not be able to root him out of office with their compromise candidate for mayor, Jeremiah...
...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...
...second wave of Japanese came over, this time from the northwest, bombing the Drum Tower residential section of China's capital. In a total of four hours' bombing, wave on wave, Japanese airmen dropped everything from enormous 500-lb. explosive charges which destroyed whole blocks and rocked the earth, to small, incendiary bombs no bigger than hand grenades, which ignited everything they touched that could possibly be set afire...