Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh major temblor hit at 7:55 p. m. Added to the nightmare were the screams of the injured and dying, the wail of fire-engine sirens. Fires had broken out, fed by sprung gas mains. Luckily most water mains held. But the Huntington Park High School had to be dynamited when fire got beyond control. At Watts, the city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted...
...hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed upon to go back into the hotel and get the players' overcoats. Trainer Schafer's earthquake experience was trying. He was taking a shower at the ball park when the first shock hit. The next thing he knew he was standing on second base stark naked...
...Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give his own opera this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Park. The Metropolitan received unexpected revenue lately when a jigsaw puzzle firm paid for the privilege of using photographs of famed singers, scenes from the opera...
...prospect of state revenues from betting. Wherever there is pari-mutuel betting, the state takes a percentage of the total amount wagered. Pari-mutuel betting is legal in Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois. Louisiana, Nevada. Montana, and, since 1931, Florida. This year, bets at Florida's No. 1 track, Hialeah Park, totaled $8,000,000, $2,000,000 more than last year...
Early one frosty morning in Manhattan, a sturdy gentleman greyed at the temples descended from his suite on the 33rd floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a constitutional up Fifth Avenue to Central Park and back with a companion. A few people nodded to him. He smiled out of his turned-up collar. On Fifth Avenue someone leaned over a bus rail, shouted: "Howdy, Hoover! How're you doing...