Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational, it was a piece of excellent reporting by Morris Markey. He began: ''This is written from a small town in South Dakota. ... It has not rained in this town for eleven months. . . . In every direction the fields go off to the horizon, brown and full of dust. . . . You cannot take a bath in this hotel. ... If you want a drink of water, you go down to the kitchen. The cook opens the door of the electric refrigerator and pours out three-quarters of a glassful of something that looks like water and tastes like iron filings...
...richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower Manhattan are assessed this year at $27,879,400; its mortgages and securities at $3,866,239. Its site and graveyard, where clerks and stenographers from the Street lunch above the dust of Robert Fulton and Alexander Hamilton, and its seven parish chapels scattered over the city are valued at $31,902,000.* Total assets: $63,647,639. Its gross income last year was $1,798,528, of which $511,529 went for city real estate taxes, $515,221 for its own expenses...
...amount of gold that went down with the ship. According to one survivor the purser handed out to frantic passengers all but two $10,000 bags which no one claimed. According to another, many a victim went to the bottom hugging $40,000 bags of nuggets and dust...
...Fred Frankhouse had reached first base, the crowd of 50,000 at New York's Polo Grounds might well have seen another inning or two of one of the most discussed baseball games in history. But Frankhouse did not reach first. Catcher Cochrane picked the ball out of the dust. His throw to first base beat the runner by a foot. The next batter made a two-base hit but the two that followed flied and grounded out. The All-Star game thereupon ended, with the American League still two runs ahead...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost $3,500,000. He was paroled after...