Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
Spectators at the women's swimming championships at Jones Beach, L. I. anticipated results like these last week. They anticipated also that the meet would produce some sort of successor to Helene Madison, who like Georgia Coleman turned professional after last year's Olympics. Nonetheless, no one except possibly her coach, Jack Scarry, foresaw the exploits of a mop-haired, broad-shouldered girl named Lenore Kight, who (like Josephine McKim and Susan Laird of the 1928 Olympic team) was entered from the Carnegie Library Athletic Club of Homestead...
...first day of the meet, Lenore Kight-who lost by a handbreadth to Helene Madison in the Olympic 400 meters -won two events. Using a free-style (crawl) stroke with even more arm-pull than Miss Madison's, she finished the 100-meter final in 1:10.8, with Olive Hatch Voight second by two feet. In the mile she had an easier time and beat Susan Robertson by 30 yd. When Helene Madison retired last year she held 16 out of the 17 of the world's free-style records up to a mile and it looked...
...have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that he had completed an unusual list of depression acquisitions and was carrying on. Today his Manhattan real estate holdings are estimated to have an assessed value...