Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal fields of southeastern Ohio, filled a mine-car with coal, doused it thoroughly with kerosene, ignited it, started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...
Christopher Columbus' grandson was made a duke by Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain. Last week the Red Militia of Madrid got their hands on Don Cristobal Colon y Aguilera, 14th Duke of Veragua, 16th in descent from the Discoverer of America and breeder on his estates of some of the best fighting bulls in Spain. In 1893 the Duke, then a lad in short pants, was taken to see Chicago's Columbian Exposition. He never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics...
Automobile racing on roads, once a major sport in the U. S., is now impractical because of heavy traffic. Last week in Manhattan entries closed for a unique event which its promoters hope will restore road racing to its onetime prestige: a .400-mile Columbus Day race for a new Vanderbilt Cup, on Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I. A field of 63 drivers, representing England, Italy, France. Germany and Australia as well as the U. S., will start qualifying trials this week...
...which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening as cars roll around the rolls. Stands and infield will hold 160,000 spectators, which Roosevelt Raceway hopes to draw twice a year hereafter, on Independence and Columbus Days...
...Brian Lewis and Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt Cup, will be $20,000, plus accessory and lap prizes...