Word: hampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not had Wade Hampton's equal in the executive mansion recently, though we did have Richard I. Manning for our World War governor. Just visit the campus of the University in Columbia, the College of Charleston or the Citadel, if you want to see the present aristocracy of a great little State...
...East Hampton, Conn., when Mrs. Henry Schleidt tried to tuck Henry Schleidt Jr., 3, into bed, he playfully kicked up his feet, fractured her jaw in three places...
Died. Emily Mary, Lady Shackleton, widow of Britain's great explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton; after a long illness; in Hampton Court Palace, near London. For six years she had lived in the palace at the invitation of King George...
...places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed...
...freight tonnage, the road has the most efficient equipment developed. Its steam locomotives are among the world's biggest, its electric locomotives on the 134 miles of electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio...