Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann garage New York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking...
...August, a hot summer sun beat down mercilessly upon white mud walls. Small boys ran about the wharves throwing hot stones into cool blue water. overloaded donkeys put tiny feet upon cobblestones leading to old docks. Tired drivers urged their charges on in guttural Spanish. All paths seemed to lead to the water, to the quay, where moored to the stones three small ships lay, taking on stores for a limitless voyage. Idle crowds milled about the blue Mediterranean shore. On board the vessels activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners...
Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...
Comeback. Last year, fortnight after his wedding at Hangchow, China, Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of Baseball's late great "Big Six," took his bride for an airplane ride, cracked up on a mud-flat. His bride lost her life, he his left leg. Last week, with an artificial leg, Christy Mathewson Jr. went to Roosevelt Field, L. I., had an instructor "check him out," made several solo flights. Said he: "I find I can fly as well as ever. . . . I intend to carry on in the industry...
...Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...