Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...
Mayor Stricklin got into his automobile, drove out Main Street to his son's undertaking parlors. There, surrounded by shrouds and coffins, police found him, with one of his own bullets through his head, dead...
...stranger who said he was a jobless bus operator. Latham let him spell him at the wheel. Suddenly the stranger flipped out a revolver, shot Latham through the side. When Latham attempted to jump from the car, the stranger ordered him back, beat him over the head, drove the car on to Christiansburg, Va., where he escaped. Passing motorists carried Latham to a hospital where, in a dying state, he made his will before being placed on the operating table. Bloodhounds sniffed along the hard Virginia highways in vain...
Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...