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Word: absecon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island to bring about $4,000. The average lighthouse sells for $1,750 to $2,500. Last sales were in July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands 1,500 ft. from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lighthouses for Sale | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Died. William Butterworth, 71, president of Deere & Co. (farm machinery), thrice (1928-31) president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; of acute coronary occlusion; in Absecon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mrs. Dibble's Drive | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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