Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teamed with his late brother George 'also twice a bankrupt)* in a real estate leal that came under the scrutiny of a graft-hunting investigation in New York City. For $25,000 cash the Garssons got property that was soon condemned for park extension and bought by the city...
...Vultee Aircraft Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, General Aniline and Film Corp. George knew the men who ran the country. George was a fixer and a puller of wires. That was what George got paid for. Keeping a gruelling schedule, he seldom got home to his Wardman Park apartment and his pretty, pert wife...
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...
Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and successors were assured of an imposing domicile. For a permanent home for Ambassadors in London, the U.S. accepted a gift from dime-store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
Detroit's worst typhoid epidemic in ten years began last month after a wedding reception at the Highland Park Baptist Church. Within three weeks, 22 guests fell ill, one died. Most of their doctors failed to diagnose the illness as typhoid (a common error). When typhoid was recognized, Health Director Dr. Charles G. Barone suspected that a typhoid carrier, infected but personally immune, was to blame...