Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...
...weather friends: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Greenwich Village Follies, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals...
...been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect. She had met some storms on the way, but she conquered them almost as easily as the 59,957-ton Leviathan. Virtually unsinkable, she was built to tease all manner of weather and unruly seas...
Bower. Houston (pronounced Hews-ton) has waxed prosperous since the U. S. dredged the Buffalo Bayou and brought the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles northward to the city (TIME, Jan. 23); it has not succeeded in changing torrid June weather. Therefore, as the vast auditorium, seating 25,000, rose on the ruins of what had been Houston offices and stores, thoughtful citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each...