Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race with paint still wet on the grandstand. The track takes 62% of all bets made, keeps the "breaks" (i. e., odd pennies left over after bets are paid off to an even nickel). Including the breaks, Narragansett's take last year was $2,174,000. Concessions, programs, gate receipts, added another $457,000. After handing out $717,000 for purses and paying all other expenses, Narragansett showed a clear profit of $507,000 for the year, which made it financially the best track...
Early last summer Amoskeag began closing down, mill by mill. By last September every gate was locked, every worker on the street. As dust gathered on Amoskeag's 20,000 cotton looms, the citizens of Manchester endured a bad winter, a cheerless spring. Amoskeag workers who had been getting $13 a week from the mills were thrown on relief at $2 per week with $1 more for each family...
Only one of New York City's five boroughs on the U. S. mainland is The Bronx. Between it and Manhattan Island flows the sludgy little Harlem River. Between it and Queens on Long Island churns Hell Gate, connecting East River with Long Island Sound.* Until last week there was no way, except for a feeble ferry, for motorists on the mainland to reach Long Island without passing through Manhattan. This traffic gap was then closed by the ceremonious opening of a $60,300,000 collection of viaducts and spans called the Triborough Bridge...
...Deal millions. Made New York City's Fusion Park Commissioner in 1934, he worked out the essential chain of highways tying the bridge into Long Island's great parkway system and East Side Manhattan traffic. The heart of the Triborough begins with a suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means...
...Astoria's brand new municipal pool, the aquatic tryouts turned out to be even more preposterously mismanaged than the track meet across Hell Gate at Randalls Island. Olympic divers, accustomed to having their entrance into the water greeted by large crowds with respectful applause, indignantly discovered that, in order to reach the springboard for practice, they had to stand behind long queues of merry Long Island City sports who were delighted because the opening of the new 20? pool coincided with the heat wave. Once reached, the springboard turned out to be an ordinary plank, instead of the special...