Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, under a blazing sun on the range of the U. S. Park Police at Abingdon, Va., Chief Gunner Charles Hubbard, U. S. C. G., bellowed "ready to the right, ready to the left, ready behind the line, FIRE!" As a line of targets swung into position, a line of Treasury pistols cracked, and better than nine out of ten of their shots pierced the 3¼-in. bull's-eyes. Best individual shot among the Treasury's men was an affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week...
...victim of "baseball," said President Walter O. Briggs (automobile bodies) who became sole owner of the club three years ago, spent $1,000,000 to enlarge the ball park, changed its name from Navin Field to Briggs Stadium. When the Tigers, who had finished second in 1936 and 1937, were still in fifth place last week, it was too much for Owner Briggs...
...tough to have a name," was a three-year-old, 350-lb. female grizzly bear taken last month from Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear...
...though it had swallowed a bone. He looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made a mess of the flower beds, was slightly cut about the face...
President Roosevelt (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBC) speaks from Hyde Park, N. Y. to mark the third anniversary of the Social Security Act. Thurs. 11 a.m., receives honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. 2:45 p.m., dedicates the new Thousand Islands International Bridge...