Word: 1880s
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...past, the say has always been resoundingly negative. Though Queen Victoria liked the notion of a tunnel as a potential cure for her seasickness, she found it "very objectionable" in principle. In the 1880s, when an early tunnel project actually bored two miles into the chalk near Dover, the Sunday Times worried that "We should have an amount of fraternizing between the discontented denizens of the great cities . . . which would yield very unsatisfactory results on this side of the Channel...
Irvine Ranch is the biggest private development project in the world?93,000 acres of open land adjoining the southern edge of sprawling Los Angeles. Originally this vast tract was an amalgam of three Spanish land grants put together in the 1880s by a group of San Francisco investors, headed by Merchant James Irvine. Ever since, it has been kept intact, used, where it was used at all, mainly as agricultural land and citrus groves. In recent years, its disposal has been the subject of considerable squabbling among the heirs. They finally agreed to have it planned as a regional...
...long way from the social prestigiousness of the 1880s, when Louis Keller is said to have compiled the first edition of the Social Register largely by culling the National Horse Show Association membership list. Its first site was a dismal railroad terminal, which William K. Vanderbilt bought and later converted for the use of the newly formed National Horse Show Association. On the first opening night, in 1883, urchins ran conducted tours of the upper-crusted boxes for a quarter a throw, while the elite thrilled to races between fire engines and competitions between mounted policemen in stopping runaway horses...
Early Chains. As a "monopolist," Newhouse has to give considerable ground to the early U.S. chain builders. Beginning in the 1880s, and teaming with one partner or another, a onetime Rushville, Ill., farm boy named Edward Wyllis Scripps bought or started 52 dailies as well as a news agency (United Press) and various feature syndicates. Hearst, another prodigious newspaper buyer, acquired a total of 42 dailies, also had his own wire service (International News Service), a Sunday supplement (American Weekly), a kit bag of magazines, and even a film company (established mainly to produce star vehicles for his mistress...
...1880s. Industrial competition from Europe turns British trade to the Empire...