Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney's Flying Scott...
Near Boyertown, Pennsylvania's first iron forge, in 1733 an Englishman named William Bird earned two shillings sixpence daily cutting wood. By 1740 he had accumulated enough capital to set up two charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of Reading. From these two forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution...
...museum's most important adjuncts-with a discreet projection room that will hold just 50 seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board of trustees, which includes Mrs. Rockefeller, Lord Duveen, Edsel Ford, John Hay Whitney and Marshall Field, will meet in the most public board room any of them has ever seen: a penthouse of clear plate glass. To pay for the building, trustees and other friends of the museum contributed some...
...every sense of the word Rightists were anxious to make hay last week. Harvest time was almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
...best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down what he saw of Paris life in the 1870s and '80s: Le Bal áBougival, just acquired by" the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (see cut); Au Moulin de la Colette, lent by John Hay Whitney, and Le Déjeuner des Canotiers, from the Phillips Memorial Gallery...