Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most other expanding U. S. cities, Fort Wayne, Ind. (Pop.: 115,000) suffers from growing pains.* An up-&-coming industrial community (automotive, agricultural, electrical equipment), its increasing land values have kept some of its poor underhoused, encouraged some of its rich to hold available outlying land for development. Mightily impressed by this contradiction has been William B. Hall, Yaleman, son of President Arthur F. Hall of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., head of Lincoln's mortgage department. A onetime flying teacher, inventor of a revolving neon sign, 33-year-old Bill Hall is not a stodgy real-estate...
...Albany, Calif., Contractor G. De Gaeta bought two lots, started to put up two houses. When the second house was almost finished, Builder De Gaeta found he had built the houses on someone else's property, a full block from the land he had bought...
...increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk) region-it may set off a boom as loud as the sugar spree, or as wild as the first days of the East Texas field when land worth ten dollars one day was worth a thousand the next...
...Josephson's The Robber Barons are likely to feel they have heard all they want to about early U. S. railroad builders. In monotonous procession the great figures of the post-Civil War period follow each other-all up to their ears in political intrigues, angling for Federal land grants, corrupting legislatures, double-crossing the public, their stockholders and each other so consistently that it seems remarkable the railroads ever got built...
...when he recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl pilgrim in front...