Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooming-house and Negro district. . . . High rates tend to follow river valleys." In a riverside district of Peoria, Ill., insanity is nine times as frequent as in another district on the bluffs. In Chicago, where the Chicago River turns to form a Y whose stem flows into Lake Michigan, the maximum concentration of insanity exactly coincides with this...
Died. Arnold Genthe, 73, famed photographer of the famous, of heart disease, at Lake Candlewood, Conn. Berlin-born, a classical scholar, he took notable pictures of the San Francisco earthquake, many a stage and literary personality. He took the photograph that got Greta Garbo her first U.S. movie contract...
...daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again to direct them to the Fortress. The rescue party fought its way on skis through a heavy storm, reached the Fortress after two days, got the crew back to the lake. Pilot Parunak landed again, picked them...
...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...