Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These include: the great Jones Beach (where 130,000 bathers can throw horseshoes, pitch-putt-golf, listen to opera, row their babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo...
Last week Dr. Sharp began to build a fourth LIFE Camp on a real frontier-a pocket of virgin forest only 68 miles from Manhattan. The site: a 1,000-acre tract in the Kittatinny Mountains of northern New Jersey. Part of an estate given to Lord Rutherford by King George III in pre-Revolutionary times, the tract was presented to LIFE Camps by anonymous donors. It abounds in deer, wild fruit and nuts, has a 40-acre lake (Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land...
...probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman." For the modern reader, main interest in Author Churchill's six volumes is likely to centre less on Marlborough's dubious innocence than on the spirited picture of diplomatic skulduggery which distinguished the whole cast of characters...
With seven Varsity boats taking to the water daily, Bolles assisted by Freshman mentor Harvey Love and Fifties coach Bert Haines has begun an earnest campaign to build up material for the spring races...
When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build...