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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspension bridge over Chasm Falls in Estes Park, Colo, seven hikers were enjoying the moonlit scene one night in 1933. Suddenly the bridge collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...
...hundred ribbons of forest, each 150 ft. wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked...
...Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other not-so-novelties include a music amphitheatre, buildings of animal husbandry, poultry and agriculture, an art show assembled...
...42nd Street address, the Lincoln Building, where he became president of Young Management Corp. Mr. Young's shy, quiet manner is deceptive. He is a master salesman as well as a brilliant analyst. Only 34, he lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When he is unable to run them his way, he moves. His latest move roots back to a shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year...
Alan Harriman, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...