Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabitants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...
...mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work...
...whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong and stayed there. Breezing down the stretch, War Admiral won as easily as everyone expected. First-prize of $49,550 brought War Admiral's lifetime winnings to $231,625-some $17,000 less than...
Next day the beleaguered Villa Cimbrone was guarded by four carabineers, three police dogs. On the locked gate hung a "keep out" sign. But from talkative servants at the villa, reporters were able to piece together the kind of idyl their editors were gasping for: Greta milking a cow named Emma* while Stoky held Emma's head; Greta contentedly stroking the white nose of a llama while Stoky picked fresh white camellias, presented them with conductorial bows to "my lady of the camellias." At the Hotel Caruso, where, until they were discovered, the couple had gone regularly...
...amazement in Attorney Burns's voice as he made it clear that the Ringling tax tricks, exuberant, huge and clever, were worthy of the late great Phineas Taylor Barnum. The Government charged that many of the evasions were run of the mill failures to report full income from gate, concessions, dividends, stock manipulations and "false, fictitious and fraudulent" deductions for debts. Among the latter was one for $50,000 from the late Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard, allegedly subtracted twice. But in the centre ring of alleged Ringling evasions were their incredible inventories. And the more colossal the inventory...