Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sold: Seventy-nine yearling trotters, year's product of the famed Walnut Hall Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
...there was no darkness in the mind of Tacoma's Mayor James Gifford New-begin. Remembering the Navy's statistic, and realizing that the Lexington was tied up at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, not 30 miles away, he wired the Navy Department in Washington and asked the loan of its power plant...
...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...
...Stuff and nonsense" cried Washington's seadogs at this profane proposal. The mayor's request was refused. The Lexington was ordered to sail from Bremerton. Undismayed, Mayor Newbegin appealed to President Hoover, emphasized the emergency confronting Tacoma...
Secretary of the Navy Adams cancelled the Lexington's sailing orders, reconsidered Tacoma's request. Naval officers admitted that the Lexington's 190,000 h. p. plant could generate nearly three times (140,000 kilowatts) the amount of electricity required by Tacoma (50,000 kilo-watts), that transfusion of this power from the ship to the city's distributing stations was altogether practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are?that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga...