Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novelty, the Bonneville Salt Flats have been in their present position and equally well suited to high-speed automobile driving for centuries. One hundred miles west of Salt Lake City, they are part of the dried-up bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville which once covered most of northwestern Utah. For 200 square miles the residual salt is as flat as a concrete highway, so hard that iron tent-stakes often bend when driven in. In the winter two inches of rain cover the flats, leave a fresh, white, marble-smooth surface in the spring. There is no dust. Moisture...
Detroit, long a mediocre baseball city, has this summer showed more excitement about its team than ever before. Detroit newssheets send four or more reporters to cover each game. Fortnight ago, when a game was postponed, a Detroit daily published a four-column picture of Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, staring disconsolately out of a window at the rain. Said the Tigers' Manager Mickey Cochrane last week: "It doesn't make much difference whether we play the Cardinals, Giants or Cubs. . . . Our players are the same, but they have improved since last year...
...Many Homes Have Radios? Answer: 19,001,592. or 58.4%. This figure does not represent maximum potential circulation since no network claims to cover every square mile of the U. S. For 79 selected programs, the networks claim an average "listening area" of 12,489,886 sets. But all sets are not running all the time...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...