Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largely on or near public forest and park lands, CCC by 1938's end had planted 1,456,973,900 trees; put in 8,594,829 man-days at fire fighting & prevention; completed 102,004 miles of trails and roads; killed uncounted millions of prairie dogs, pocket gophers, jackrabbits, practiced "rodent control" on 30,774,000 infested acres; "re-vegetated" (grassed) 267,600 acres of grazing lands; built 41,960 bridges, 5,181 large dams, 3,612 towers and stations for fire lookouts, 68,990 miles of telephone line...
...close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under the influence of cocktails and a moon, she used to get engaged, but always...
...arts as for its setting, San Franciscans would owe many thanks to WPA. Already hopeful of this, San Francisco WPA officials were pleased as Punch last week at the dedication of one of the most sophisticated WPA building jobs in the U. S.-a new, $1,500,000 Aquatic Park overlooking the Golden Gate...
Life in London nowadays is not calculated to settle the nerves. If you go into St. James Park to feed the ducks on the lake, you will see holes in the ground-bomb shelters. If you plan to remodel your Victorian house in Chelsea, you must make provision for a steel cellar-bomb shelter. If you go for a spin in your little Vickers monoplane, you must watch for preposterous balloons dangling wires-defense against bombers. If you have a disproportionately long nose, you must be specially fitted for a gas mask...
...Author. Like Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent...