Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports shows in Boston last year and last fortnight...
...Professor Laurence Hampson Mayers, who addressed members of the American Society for the Study of Arthritis at their meeting in Manhattan last week. Publicity was not long coming his way when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist...
...winner of the Packers v. Redskins game this week will go the professional championship of the U. S. Among the Packers' stars favored to win it are: Halfback John Blood, whose service record of 13 years is the longest in the League, whose size (6 ft., 190 Ib.) is pygmy compared to a team averaging 20 Ib. more, and whose orangutan arms make him equally dreaded as a pass catcher and a tackler; End Don Hutson, whose 34 catches this season broke the League record; Arnold ("Flash") Herber, whose accuracy has enabled him to throw completed passes totaling...
...Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent $7,000,000 building a modern waterfront. In 1932, with great ceremony, the Port of Albany was opened to the world...
...handle the money end of his affairs he has headquarters in London, where he is called "The Great White Father," another in Manhattan's RKO Building, where there is a photomural of a scene from his Bittersweet. In each of these places, head man is a tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward's brokerage account for Chas. D. Barney...