Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumbled mountains of Northern California, among which Mount Shasta's snowy crest is the noblest (14,161 ft.), rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...turkeys in Christendom could not have consumed the grasshoppers available in the U. S. last week. Westward from Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois to Washington, Oregon and California, northward from Texas to the Dakotas, the 'hopper wave was at its crest in 24 States. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle the probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited...
...weariness. That was not bad, for their average age was 94. Oldest was Negro William A. Barnes, 112, of Oakland. Calif., who brought an ample gin supply. Youngest were several of 88, who were 13 (having lied about their age) that afternoon when Pickett's charge lapped the crest of Cemetery Ridge and rolled back crushing the hopes of the Confederacy...
...protecting profits they had made in the bull market since 1932. Six months later, the Dow Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal was given, the Dow-Jones industrial average was at 165; speculators who then sold stocks have avoided a loss of more than...
...Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...