Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montana, Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler who helped wreck the President's Court Plan last winter, unlike Wyoming's Anti-Court Plan Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry...
Will you please refer to the issue of TIME dated Aug. 23, p. 21 under the heading Transport, where you depict the scene of the "Chatsworth Wreck" on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, particularly, the ending of the fourth paragraph, advising the public the Van Sweringen interests had taken the road out of receivership...
Only in the final paragraphs does the reader discover that Author Adamic intended to be more than picturesque. Here he reveals his real purpose: The Casa del Capuchino, says he, represents the world as "really a Ruin, a Mess, a Wreck." Its restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less...
...made news principally since 1933 by questions that have arisen in connection with the operation of his automobile. Last year his application for renewal of a driver's license was turned down, only to be granted later. Then in the summer he emerged with a broken nose from one wreck and shortly afterwards dented the back of another...
...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-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias in his even smaller gig. Overcrowded from the start there was scant room for the severely rationed water and food. To the south lay cannibals of the Marshall group of islands; westward 1,500 miles was Guam. They...