Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While President Hoover was napping on Thanksgiving Day two taxicabs rolled up to the White House gate. Out of one climbed a man and two women. Out of the other emerged six small children, one a pickaninny. Watchful police swooped upon them, bundled them all off to the station house. They constituted what had been heralded as "a mighty prelude" to a Communist "hunger march." One thousand children were supposed to have paraded, clutching empty milk bottles in their tiny fists...
...years rolled by Showman Gates built up a substantial troupe. Names like Silas Christofferson, Lincoln Beachey, Art Smith, Katherine Stinson appeared on his flamboyant handbills. In early days he netted perhaps $2,000 merely for a 10-minute flight above the fair grounds, and not always did his patched-up planes stay up ten minutes. Later it was stunting, wing-walking, plane-to-plane jumps, standing on looping planes, that brought in gate receipts...
...decline in attendance at football games lies somewhere in between these two views. It seems a far cry to say that interest is falling so rapidly that the end of football is near at hand, but yet it is also hard to explain the great drop in gate receipts this year solely on the grounds of depression or even very largely on these grounds. Athletic associations all over the country report much greater drops in attendance this year over that of last year than were noted in the attendance last year over that of two years ago, and the receipts...
...radio needs to be told that college football is no longer a miraculous money-maker. Harvard's team did not play before a single capacity crowd in the stadium during the season just ended. Yale's experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where the competing teams have been conspicuously victorious...
Engineers estimated that it would take them four years to hang a bridge across the Golden Gate. Last week exactly half that time had elapsed since a $35,000,000 bond issue was voted to finance the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge.? But not a single strand of cable swung silhouetted against the sunset. The two years have been filled with legal wrangling...