Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodical Frankie Parker, fifth ranking tennist in the U.S.: the Spring Lake Invitation tournament; for the eighth time in its nine-year history; beating foxy, aggressive Wayne Sabin (2-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3) in the final; after a three-hour struggle; at the Bathing & Tennis Club, Spring Lake, N.J. A racquet-wielding robot on clay, who has a new model forehand each spring and trades it in every fall, Parker has been defeated only once in eight clay-court tournaments this year...
...eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...
...advantage, brought quick decision to the exercise, which had the Fifth fighting a delaying action against overwhelming odds. Starting at daylight, the tankers plunged down on the Fifth from all points of the compass, before noon had shattered resistance and captured the Fifth's C.O., Brigadier General Cortlandt Parker...
...John S. Parker Jr., Charles River, Mass,; Robert F. Regan, Cambridge, Mass,; Robert B. Russell, New York City; Robert H. Ryan, Watertown, Mass...
...meeting was devoted to the reports of the retiring officers, President L. Parker Marvin, Jr., Treasurer E. Langdon Burwell, and Secretary Seth C. Crocker, and to the elections...