Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
Died. Joseph Don Carlos Young, 83, last of Brigham Young's 25 sons; of old age; in Salt Lake City. Of the late Mormon leader's 56 children, born to him by 16 wives, only four daughters (aged 68, 75, 77, 78) survive...
...mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June 30, 1940. To be tunneled at a depth of 35 feet through the stratum of blue clay underlying Chicago's 25 feet of largely-filled in elevation above Lake Michigan, its two lines will lead from existing "L" trackage on the North Side, shortcutting some trains into the "Loop" from outlying areas with time savings of as much as 16 to 20 minutes, and bringing rapid transit for the first time to the busy Milwaukee Avenue industrial district. In the "Loop...
...Salt Lake City, Professor Thomas C. Adams of the University of Utah announced, after tests with Boy Scouts, that the best thing to toss to a person drowning in Great Salt Lake is a 15-lb. anchor...
...several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword, shield...