Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most importance is the rearrangement of the infield. Unable to find a really satisfactory third basement, Mitchell has brought Dave Shean, las year's left fielder, into the inner cordon, placing him at second base, and has moved Art Johns to shortstop, leaving Dick Grondahl to take care of the hot cornor. Captain Lupien, of course, continues to hold down first. Dick Ulin and Russ Ayers will rate as top infield spares...
...because of the rain, which has filled the excavation pit with water, necessitating electric pumps to empty it. The foundations when built will go down 22 feet below the surface, which is an unusual depth for a building of this type. This is due to the fact that the basement will contain two floors of book-stacks...
...Hollywood all studios except Twentieth Century-Fox stopped work to fight the water. Victor McLaglen suffered a $20,000 loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew...
Then came Depression, the upsurge of radio, the decline of road earnings. Cain's business dwindled. In 1933 its storage space shrank from five solid floors to a ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly...
That the Germanic is becoming an art resort for the younger generation of Cambridge may be seen any afternoon in the basement of the Museum where often a hundred children of all ages are gathered to work on art projects of their own choosing. Although some doubt was held at one time as to the value and popularity of the venture, it was all dispelled when over 200 showed up on the opening...