Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admirals-in-the-making. If a table were built for their miniature war games, they would still get waistline exercise (which they relish) because the table would have to be as big as the linoleum floor on which they now play. The games are played to scale. Each 1-ft. square of linoleum represents one square mile of ocean, or at most ten square miles, according to the problem...
Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department. Sole theme limitation was that each must have something remotely...
...gave some indication of his abilities as a schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week, the best explanation experts could find for this was the fact that Peacock, running...
Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...