Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had died uncommonly wealthy. His executors assessed his gross estate, before expenses and taxes, at $1,940,999. Nearly half that amount he had inherited in stocks and bonds from his mother; another half-million was soundly liquid in bank accounts, additional securities and U.S. Treasury bonds. Hyde Park property (including $110,520 worth donated to the nation) and the famous stamp collection (auctioned for $212,847) were other principal assets...
...year's royalties on The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Random House in 1938, amounted to a mere $13.50. Alumnus Roosevelt's $500 investment in the Harvard Club of New York had dwindled in value to $350. Typical debts: $22 for Hyde Park seed, $72 to a British stamp dealer, and $8.88 for newspapers...
Ottawa's squatting veterans got rough. Led by fiery half-pint Franklyn Edward Hanratty, president of the Veterans' Housing League, 500 vets and spectators massed in Victoria Park last week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks - H.M.C.S. Carleton - on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake...
Then the motorcade of vets went to the empty C.W.A.C. hutment at Lansdowne Park, settled another nine families. Thirty city police, standing by, did not interfere. When acting Mayor Dr. G. M. Geldert chided the vets for the invasion when housing units were being readied for them at Rockcliffe airport, they shouted him down: "Nuts to that stuff...
...Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...