Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sky Soldiers. Planes are no good without good men. To train its flying men, U. S. Army Air Corps has invested $16,833,733.50 in Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the...
Last week Science Service reported that hydroponics would soon get under way at Wake Island, the tiny speck of land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In...
Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further...
Meanwhile, the stockmarket was falling faster than ever before. Dick Whitney got loans on his wife's securities, on those of the Yacht Club. He cadged loans as small as $15,000 from some Wall Street acquaintances, as big as $100,000 from others. He tried to peg Distilled...
Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus, N...