Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roselle Park...
...third time in 21 years Peiping's citizens last week prepared to receive an approaching conqueror. At first their preparations were scarcely perceptible. Skaters still weaved across Nan Hai Lake, near the Forbidden City. In the adjoining park, old gentlemen taking their caged songsters for an airing paused to compare birds. The lovely city (its name means "Northern Peace") expected, even looked forward to a quick, peaceful turnover...
...space" by three sets of coefficients representing light, sunshine and view. He allowed 1.0 for a well-lit room, but "if half of its surface is in the shadow for a substantial part of the day," he scaled it down to .8. If he had a room overlooking a park or "a remarkable panorama," he charged himself 1.1, but reduced it if he could see only "a wide street or court or a stretch of grass at least 15 meters wide and without obstructions [not counting trees]." For a really super-duper view he boosted the factor to 1.3. (Cracked...
...park of the Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
...Granddad. In Magazine, Ark., John Park Cravens withdrew his complaint that he had never received his order of four quarts of whiskey, advertised at $3.20, when he learned that the ad was 48 years...