Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a dream. After a week-end of public outcries, the Senate committee changed its mind, decided not to tax the "little fellow," went on to other decisions and indecisions, successive scenes in the nightmare of writing a tax bill...
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...
...gambling in the rest of Mexico last December; even in the Mexican politicians' fabulous Foreign Club at Mexico City. Last week he clamped down on Agua Caliente. Drawing most of their huge income from the gambling concessions, Hot Water's proprietors knew at once that a beautiful dream was over, shut up shop. Guests, croupiers, gamblers, horse trainers, horses, whippets, barbers, masseuses, all started trailing back to California...
...Noyes's most significant telegrams were from Bernard Mannes Baruch (in Paris): "This is a particularly happy day for me as the dream of my father to have a place where the suffering could be healed and made better able to face their daily problem comes true." And "Bernie" Baruch's brother, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, wired: "This indeed is a permanent monument to our dear father . . . Dr. Simon Baruch...
...associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated to arouse in audiences a mixture of amazement and despair...