Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 15, two tall-masted sloops slanting across the line off Newport, R. I., will mark the start of the most expensive sports event in the world?the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races...
...Louis carries water from 691,000 sq. mi. of territory. It is normally lowest in winter when ice holds moisture back in the headwaters. It is normally highest between April and July. In June 1929 it was at top level, even with its banks, 30.8 ft. above the zero mark on the Weather Bureau's gauge. There was no June rise this year. In July the river fell more than six inches. Last week it was zero, an all-time low for July. "Never before," declared the Weather Bureau, "has there been such a general drying up of streams...
This campaign was launched, according to Dr. Schmitt, because so many German firms are infected with "export fatigue." They have weakened in their efforts to push their sales in foreign markets where depreciated currencies have made ruling prices low in terms of gold or of the German mark. Cried Dr. Schmitt: "The error of concentrating on the home market in times like these must be uprooted! Exports must be forced by every means so as to secure for the Fatherland adequate foreign exchange...
Said Dr. William Norman Guthrie of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie: "Bunk...
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...