Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Dental Association was scheduled to meet in Oakland. Calif, last month. For their convention that association of proud professional men decided that they needed no less than 3.000 hotel rooms. 50.000 sq. ft. of space for clinics and exhibits, an assembly hall to hold at least 1,000 persons at a time. Oakland had the space, but not the sleeping quarters. Hence Oakland hotelkeepers and merchants lost the business which 8,000 dentists created when they met across the bay in San Francisco last week...
...before that a Honolulu resident named Clarence W. MacFarlane had tried to drum up interest in such a race. He found yachtsmen eager to sail ''down" to Honolulu, but fearful of sailing back "up" to California against the prevailing Trade Winds. MacFarlane set out in his 48-ft. schooner La Paloma to prove that this was no great problem. Arriving safely at San Francisco on April 19, 1906, he was irked because there was no reception committee. Finally he spied a friend. "Hello, Mac," said the San Franciscan, "Isn't this terrible...
...smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder, Lawrence Saint held his own glass directly against the great Western windows, shouted for joy when he realized he had duplicated the original colors in three cases out of four...
...Negro high jumpers-Cornelius Johnson, David Albritton-broke the world's record, tied at 6 ft...
...advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because the Olympic diving program rewards perfection of execution rather than quantity of varia- tions. Needing a third place or better to make the team, the best she could...