Word: elwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start pouring...
...Andover Borough, N. J., blonde, 16-year-old high-school sophomore Carolyn McDavit last March ran to her parents with the story that Principal R. Elwin Matteson, a married Scoutmaster of 32, had detained her after class, tried to kiss her. Andover Borough's School Board promptly fired Principal Matteson...
...Under the Axe of Fascism" deserves a niche in the library beside the worthy volumes of Mr. Finer, Mr. Elwin, and Miss Haider. It is a distinct contribution to the enlightened understanding of present day Italy...
Business has been none too good for the Eldredge Company Inc., poster printers of Brooklyn. N. Y., but Secretary Elwin Martin Eldredge, pink with pleasure, swore that never in his life had he had such a wonderful Christmas present as the one he received last week...
...evening several years ago he passed an antique store on 8th Avenue, and there in the window was a picture of the Glen Cove, smokestacks, calliope and all. When he next returned it was gone. As the years passed Elwin Martin Eldredge grew to feel that he never would find a picture of that steamer. Last week a friend from Boston sent him a Christmas present: a lithograph, faded but well preserved, of the Glen Cove. Collector Eldredge could not contain himself...