Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution to erect a $50,000 monument to the late William Crawford Gorgas, the Army's surgeon general who rid the Panama Canal Zone of yellow fever...
March 6-Unveiling of monument to the late Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, famed feminist propagandist; in London...
...money." Citizens of Philadelphia, turning from their daily preoccupation with the Civil War, were glad to read Merchantman John Wanamaker's announcement, found him as good as his word, helped him turn over his stock so fast that soon he was Philadelphia's biggest merchant, civic monument, U. S. phenomenon...
...colossal monument to cinematic lavishness, is the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan. Showmen, long impotent in creating new superlatives, can murmur nothing except "titanic" when they think of the $10,000,000 that went into its erection. But few stockholders in Roxy Theatres Corp. are proud of their palatially gaudy enterprise. For, despite the fact that Fox soon bought control, Roxy A stock has declined from its offering price of $40 in 1925 to $22, has never been listed on any exchange. And Roxy performances, while resplendent with tinseled stage-shows, redundant with the harmony of a vast 80-piece orchestra...
...discovered 29 years ago when a cowboy, one Jim White, saw what he thought was volcanic smoke. The "smoke" was the effect of flocks of bats emerging for their evening insect hunt. The Government made the cave site a National Monument seven years ago, marking off 720 acres. The underground halls spread farther than that; how far, Explorer Nicholson will try to learn...