Word: rainstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warned by the rumble of approaching motors (and probably by espionage reports), Nazi anti-aircraft men, crouched beside their guns, had no targets until the British raiders burst from the overcast in a driving rainstorm. Out of formation peeled the raiders. Down they dropped in screaming power dives, slamming heavy bombs at some of the juiciest bombing targets in Germany: men-of-war and vital establishments in docks, fuel storage, ammunition supply...
...Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin...
Moving along at a half-trot, Golfer Ferebee, who used to be a wrestler at the University of Virginia, played the first 36 holes in 172 strokes, 170 minutes. By noon he had collected a gallery of 500 and scores of 90, 82, 82, 82. Then Providence sent a rainstorm. Fortified by sandwiches & coffee and refreshed by a shower during his 97-minute rest, Golfer Ferebee continued his jaunt, followed by a dozen reporters, photographers and, toward late afternoon, half of La Salle Street (including Partner Tuerk...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...
...annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when...