Word: marker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosed marker is placed on the spot where B. Young's house stood and his birthplace. It is in the town of Whitingham, Vt. This town is in the southern part of Vermont...
...lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more smartly handled Enterprise. Again the winner, Skipper Vanderbilt sailed his tall white sloop across the finish line 9 min. 49 sec. in front of less resourceful Capt. Ted Heard...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...Airport Marker. Although Danville, Va.'s Standard Oil building bears a roof-mark pointing to the town's airport, Pilot Ogden Maxwell Goodsell did not see it. Circling aimlessly, Pilot Goodsell spied a golfer, dropped a milkbottle bearing a scribbled note asking him to lie on the turf with his head pointing toward the airport. Golfer Hunter Y. Lea obligingly lay down. Pilot Goodsell flew straightaway to a safe landing...