Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval review last week at Spithead, off Portsmouth. "Fly Past/- Three brand new Baby Rolls-Royces were at His Majesty's disposal when he went down to Mildenhall, Suffolk, to view some $5,000,000 worth of fighting aircraft which had nearly burned up in a huge grass fire night before. Stepping into an apple-green Baby Rolls, and wearing for the first time in his life the blue uniform of Marshal of the Royal Air Force. George V rolled safely along the ground past 38 squadrons totaling 350 planes...
...Jacob Sechler Coxey, who three years ago took 7,309 votes from Roosevelt, Hoover and Thomas, who four years ago was elected Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931), who 41 years ago led his "Army" of 356 unemployed to Washington and got arrested for walking on the grass...
...city. Passing over slums, mills, grimy houses, he fixed on the new Mellon Institute, which looks like the Parthenon, snorted: "That's what happens when men get rich and bring Greece to Pittsburgh." Of University of Pittsburgh's Gothic, skyscraping Cathedral of Learning: "The most stupendous 'Keep off the Grass' sign I've even seen...
Meanwhile in Springfield, Ill. the Republican cohorts of the Midwest were assembling. At their "grass roots" conference, the grassrooters turned out to include Hanford MacNider (Hoover Minister to Canada), Patrick Jay Hurley (Hoover Secretary of War), Arthur M. Hyde (Hoover Secretary of Agriculture), Arch Coleman (Hoover First Assistant Postmaster General...
...sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley, and the Kennecott mine opened in 1911. The first year of operation (1912), more than...