Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBERT S. HARTMAN Lake Forest...
...take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other things, provide power for a string of greatly needed fertilizer factories. A lock system on the man-made lake will permit 10,000-ton steamers to sail from Shanghai to Chungking itself...
...neared 50, large and lusty Writer Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...
Died. Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy...
...Stupple allowed members one reprocessed ball for each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...