Word: cove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composed of three members appointed by the President to operate the plant, sell power to States and municipalities, experiment with fertilizer nitrates by using any private process filed with the U. S. Patent Office. A $32,000,000 dam was to be constructed above Muscle Shoals at Cove Creek to stabilize the Tennessee's flow...
Communal is the summer life of the five Brothers Pratt at Glen Cove, L. I. Around the rim of a water-skirted tract of 1,000 acres they have their homes-George at "Killenworth," Charles at "Seamoor," Harold at "Welwyn," Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...
Most potent of the Brothers Pratt is Herbert Lee, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, lavish benefactor of the Y. M. C. A. Largest and most impressive is his Glen Cove home, "The Braes," a many-chimneyed pile of red stone with white marble trimmings, baronial courtyard, fountains, gardens. In such a magnificent setting the best of French champagne would not be out of place. To the task of procuring some, Herbert Lee Pratt last spring applied himself, with the following results...