Word: ark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more for concerts this year than last; Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Kansas City paid less. As in 1929 La Porte, Ind., was found to be the most musical city per capita in the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). Of its 15,575 population, 1,428 (9%) attend concerts regularly. Helena, Ark. (pop. 8,316), was second...
Sought out by newshawks last week, the scattered crew of the America made characteristic comments. Said Byrd in Little Rock, Ark.: "I have no objection to Mr. Fokker's saying that Balchen did the better job on the transatlantic flight than I did. I have always felt that way myself." Said Bernt Balchen, shy by nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took...
...Little Rock, Ark., in a hotel H. G. Lansdale of Atlanta, Ark. telephoned the desk clerk, complained that W. U. McCabe. Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room. Said H. G. Lansdale: "If you don't stop that rumpus I will." Forthwith he stomped into the room, shot and critically wounded Legislator McCabe...
...stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...
...Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), many a college professor, and ten Mexican, Chilean and Argentine scholars...