Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been considered local (the President grew ironical) because a house is built only on one spot although its materials come from everywhere. No matter where coal, oil or copper may be shipped the Court implies that their production is not interstate commerce. If I started manufacturing toothpaste at Hyde Park, I would not be engaged in interstate commerce even though all but one or two carloads of my stuff were shipped out of the state. And growing wheat is not interstate commerce even if a farmer's wheat goes to an elevator in the next state, is sold...
...from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego's two main inducements to hold a fair: 1) to bait ten million tourists into the city before Armistice Day; 2) to put to some practical use 1,400-acre Balboa Park and the many permanent neo-Hispanic buildings by the late Bertram Goodhue left over from the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16.* Accordingly, the citizenry passed the hat to collect $500,000 for organization expenses, concessionaires were invited to participate, the U. S. Government appropriated $125,000 for a building...
...Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses and barns float by on the boiling flood waters. The water stood five feet deep...
...perturbed by the quality of entrants in Canada's greatest racing classic, 18,000 Toronto socialites and plain people last week swarmed into Woodbine Park. In honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal...
...William du Pont's Rosemont, Jockey Wayne Wright up: the Withers Stake, with Omaha, William Woodward's winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, second by 1½ lengths; at Belmont Park...