Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk on the steep slopes of the Monchsberg overlooking Salzburg, an overconfident Airedale named Gigo tried to drink from a swift-flowing stream that powers Salzburg's hydroelectric system and was swept into an underground aqueduct. He finally made it to a ledge 165 yards inside the aqueduct. After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman...
...Where do you live?" he asks her idly, as she nibbles at caviar and lobster in his overpoweringly seductive apartment. "Oh," she answers him, dazed with all the magnificence and trying desperately to live up to it, "I'm not like the others. I never sleep under the aqueduct. I have a house of my own - everything! Even a thermometer!" He smiles tolerantly. Suddenly she begins to cry. "But when I tell them about all this," she sobs, "who's going to believe me!" He grandly scribbles a testimonial, and signs it. Somehow, after her taste...
Then the group tipped its plan to the public: for $22.5 million, the city could build a 233-mile aqueduct from Owens Valley. The voters overwhelmingly approved a bond issue to pay for it. In 1913 the aqueduct was completed, spilled its water into the "vast stubble field" of the San Fernando Valley*-and to ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond...
...stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping the horse through the snow. By the time racing started at Aqueduct, Crack Time was ready. The cheap colt won $12,615 before it was lost in a $10,000 claiming race...
This week, with racing at Aqueduct under way, Horse Professor Matheson moved into New York for the fall term, got set to give his usual monthly series of lectures between trips to the track. Average enrollment: 65. "This is the best racing in the world," said Matheson, as he looked at the stone spires of Manhattan. "The town is full of horse players...