Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop's contemplation of the weather was interrupted by a crash as the Livonia struck a shoal. Soon a heavy squall smote the stranded ship. The Bishop hurriedly launched his lifeboats, took all hands aboard, rowed for tiny, deserted Plana Cay. In ten minutes the Livonia had sunk...
...When the weather cleared in the midwest, the Army armada gave Chicago its delayed spectacle: close formation flying, aerobatics, mass combat and attack operations. Then the show moved to its culmination in the East. With only two minor mishaps-one plane forced down, one damaged while landing-the fleet crossed the Appalachian highlands and settled upon five airfields near Manhattan...
...theoretical coalition of foreign powers had vanquished overnight the U. S. Battle and Scouting Fleets, destroyed the Panama Canal, was about to loose a fleet of planes on New York from aircraft carriers. The actual enemy was again bad weather...
...world's tallest). Crowds congregated in Manhattan's Central Park. Militant pacifists under Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise prepared to harangue street gatherings, urge them to beware the blood on the glistening wings overhead. But the show had to be postponed three hours on account of bad flying weather and around 3 p.m. it looked as if the spectacle would have to be called off entirely. Black clouds hung over Connecticut. But Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was to lead his squadron of Missouri National Guard observation planes, flew off to the rendezvous to inspect the weather. Like oldtime...
...scenario called for a breath-taking display of air power-sham battles in the air, mass flying formations with the wings of the planes 16 ft. apart. The dreary weather permitted only a stately parade of the squadrons down the hazy Hudson. Except for a few power dives and dog fights over Floyd Bennett Field, the only aerobatics of the afternoon took place inland over New Jersey. A patrol of pursuit planes dove at the World-Telegram-Eastern Air Transport's "flying press box," shooed it further off the course...