Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance not only set a Hambletonian record and enriched Shirley Hanover's 39-year-old owner, Lawrence Baker Sheppard, by $20,916 of the $38,000 purse, but made his Hanover Shoe Farms the only two-time winner in the history of the race. Shirley Hanover's dam, Hanover's Bertha, carried the stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover...
...Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi by Jo Davidson. On tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready for the Wine Fountain spouting real wine but not the vintages of the famed French chateaux which adorn it in symbolic model form...
...Johnstown the dynamiting of the Bethlehem plant's water supply not only threw 6,000 men out of work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk...
...will be the invariable form of all governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb the republican principles and existing political regimes in the Americas...
Died. Hugh Lincoln Cooper, 72, engineer of the Soviet Dnepr Dam, the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., other large hydro-electric projects; in Stamford, Conn. Engineer Cooper was one of the few foreigners to win the confidence of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin. His Dnepr power plant, with a 750,000 horsepower capacity, is second only to the one at Boulder Dam...