Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer Somervell wasted no time. Within two weeks President Roosevelt pressed a button at Hyde Park, which exploded a dynamite charge which shot a fountain of Florida earth skyward. Gangs of WPA workers and mules were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired...
Pelham St. George Bissell of Manhattan is a 48-year-old lawyer, a graduate of Columbia College and Law School, a Park Avenue socialite, a Republican, father of seven, past commander of four war veterans' societies. As President-Justice of New York City's Municipal Courts he earns $227.69 per week. David M. Zwanziger of Queens Borough is a 37-year-old engineer, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, who knows five languages. For months he had earned nothing until, last August...
Pushing his way out of the house, David Frankfurter walked quietly across the park and surrendered to the Swiss police...
...size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled...
...Manhattan, Austin Phelps Palmer, retired electrical engineer living on Park Avenue, pleaded guilty to writing the President the following letter last November...