Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, the finals of the scouting force boxing matches. James Joseph Tunney, retired Marine, would referee and give to the heavyweight winner the statue of James J. Corbett which Mr. Britten won as U. S. amateur lightweight champion back in 1894. To Mr. Britten everything looked bright except the weather...
...Shipping Board had contributed for the occasion the old wartime freighter Mt. Shasta which was towed 60 mi. out to sea. In heavy weather an Army bombardment squadron headed out from Langley Field, flew around for four hours and returned to make a forced landing 25 mi. from home. Observers aboard Coast Guard craft near the target declared the Army pilots never even found the Mt. Shasta. The bombers retorted they found the freighter all right but did not try to sink her because of bad weather...
...Fine weather came three days later when nine Army bombers soared out over the Atlantic for another crack at the Mt. Shasta. Fifty bombs of 100 Ib. and 300 Ib. were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin...
Last week cotton took wheat's place in the press headlines of the land and in the worried mind of the Federal Farm Board. Good growing weather began bringing in the 1931 crop ahead of schedule. On the Shafter, Calif, farm in which President Hoover has a financial stake, the first bale of long staple was produced three weeks earlier than last year. Ginning the South Carolina crop started at Allendale seven days ahead of time. In Washington, Department of Agriculture officials hotly defended as "reasonably accurate" their 15,584,000 bale crop estimate.* Prices sank to the lowest...
...favorite was Nedda Guy, a bay filly owned by W. H. Cane's Good Time Farm, on whose three-corner, one-mile track the three heats of the Hambletonian were run after two postponements for bad weather. If anything happened to Nedda Guy, there was Keno-a big bay colt owned by John M. Berry of Rome, Ga. A third choice, 5-to-1 in the auction pool just before the horses skimmed onto the track for the first heat, was William M. Wright's bay, Calumet Butler. William M. Wright was at his home in Lexington...