Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
...years ago last week the new $40,000,000 Waldorf-Astoria, a pile of smooth towers rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy...
...President who loves both traveling and political maneuvering, nothing is more fun than to combine the two. In high good humor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week boarded a train at Hyde Park, N.Y., to spend twelve days doing exactly that. Ostensible purpose of the trip was to see his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit...
...Stalin, as becomes the Biggest Shot, travels between his Kremlin office and suburban home over streets and roads on which 24 hours per day no car is permitted to park or make a U-turn, not even in the country after Moscow has been left behind. The Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three...
...William M. Mann, entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, was made director of Washington's National Zoological Park. Dr. Mann is now 51, slight and dark. He also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists...