Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both...
...Long Island, the hurricane which devastated Fire Island and the continuing strip of seabeach that runs as far east as Southampton (TIME, Oct. 3) spelled Opportunity as well as Catastrophe. He was husky, dark-haired, immensely energetic Robert Moses...
...Republican, he is friendly with both Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration in New York City and the Democratic State administration, both of which he serves (as president of the Long Island State Park Commission and City Park Commissioner). No friend, however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...
...long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island's whole south shore. Owners and renters opposed him, preferring their beaches to remain wildly beautiful, to keep city hordes from encroaching further on country privacy. Now, with their summer homes smashed to flinders, with even their beach, real estate so devastated that many an owner thought of letting...
...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...