Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brink of Kilauea. Just as barefoot natives have done from time immemorial, he tossed into the inactive volcano a handful of red ohelo berries, traditional offering made to propitiate Pele, goddess of volcanoes. For six weeks Pele did nothing about it. Suddenly last week Kilauea belched forth a cloud of smoke, vomited millions of tons of molten lava. Natives concluded these were signs that Pele, too, had succumbed to Franklin Roosevelt's charm...
...stewardesses whisked up & down the corridors comforting two-thirds of the passenger list which were deathly seasick. But Miss Cullen and her friends were bound to make a night of it. stay up and see the dawn over New York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly a cloud of smoke began to pour from the library. Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze. They told Miss Cullen and her friends: "Don't worry! It will be put out easy." Miss Cullen ran down to wake up her roommate and get a coat...
...last week men, women and children in sultry Manhattan, on the broad beaches of Long Island, at windswept Point Judith, R. I. and in leafy Connecticut stared aloft in wide-eyed wonder at a beautiful flying thing, the like of which they had never seen before. Through a blue cloud-flecked sky it wheeled its solitary way round & round in a wide circle over three states...
...Shipbuilding in the U. S. has virtually ceased because of the cloud which Senator Black's mail contract investigation has thrown around the question of subsidies. It costs about twice as much to build a ship in the U. S. as in any other land and at least 50% more to operate it under the U. S. flag...
...yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there...