Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Eaton has spared no expense to beautify his Park. At the foot of Mount Forest Lawn is an enormous marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with...
...earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
...with 400 spectators flattening their noses against the greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
...Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film. They cannot be rented. Producer Castle expects to sell a total of 10,000.000 ft. of film on his first three releases, representing a private investment of approximately...
...other across the Golden Gate, lately opened with two gigantic fiestas (TIME, Nov. 23 & June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death...