Word: stranded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
Five minutes to noon. Massed along the pavements of London's Ludgate Hill last week and down the Strand were thousands of excited school children, cynical salesladies, brokers, clerks. Noon. Bow Bells, all the bells of London, clanged in tingling cacophony. An escort of mounted police clattered up the empty street and the great procession started. The Worshipful His Lordship, the new Lord Mayor of London was on has way from Guildhall to take his oath of office at the Courts of Justice in the Strand...
Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
...Across the Hudson River between two gigantic steel towers in Manhattan and New Jersey was spun, with appropriate ceremonies (Governors handshaking), the first strand of the first cable of the world's largest suspension bridge. Built by the Port of New York Authority at a cost of 60 millions, the bridge will have a span of 3,568 ft., 206 ft. above water, supported by four wire cables, each three feet in diameter. Date of completion...
Another typical case is that of the Strand Theatre, Akron. The Strand's musicians must remain in the pit six hours on Sunday, three hours on week days, although they only play for 15 minutes per day since the installation of a sound apparatus. If they leave, their contract is broken...