Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 75th anniversary of the opening of the first transcontinental telegraph line in the U. S. was dutifully observed by Western Union Telegraph Co. While replicas of the old Morse instruments clacked before a microphone, while historians recounted the wire-stringing from Sacramento to Omaha that finally joined East and West in 1861, Western...
...when he stopped to put imported gasoline into his car and imported mineral water down his own throat, Count Brivio took the lead. Nuvolari, on his way again long before anyone else could catch up, took it back after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns, for a 66 m.p.h. average - he waved to the judges and slowed down. While France's Jean Wimille in a Bugatti passed Count Brivio, whose motor had overheated...
Celebrated in Stuttgart one day last week with the fanfare appropriate to one of Germany's leading corporations was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Robert Bosch A. G. Happily the date coincided with the 75th birthday of its benevolent, snow-bearded founder, the man whose name throughout the mechanized world means magneto...
...Cezannes Collector Barnes brought back with him last week were the 74th and 75th to be added to the Barnes Foundation, which includes the largest collection of Cezannes in the world. Few U. S. citizens have had a chance to see them, for the Greco-Roman temple outside Philadelphia that houses the Barnes Foundation is surrounded by an eight-foot iron fence, guarded by savage dogs. Only specially invited guests may view his pictures, and not a few of them have been bodily ejected from the building when their appreciation of what they were shown did not seem...
Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the battle which the South calls First Manassas and the North calls First Bull Run, a Stonewall Jackson again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...