Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elsewhere. Drummer Krupa decided that he was too important a figure to thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, when Drummer Krupa's new orchestra got into their groove, 5,000 pop-eyed adolescents raised the roof...
Last week, departing for England on the Queen Mary with the ashes of her dead, Fannie Ward paused on the pier to sob into a microphone: "My friends of America. . . . I'm taking my two loved ones on their last journey . . . and I say this to every mother and father in the world: Don't let your children go in the air unless you want to suffer what I am today...
Three months after its dedication Gilbert Gable's dock collapsed in a storm. Since then a temporary pier has been built, Port Orford has grown to 1,000 in population and Gilbert Gable has become mayor. But no construction of the railroad has been started. Tired of waiting, local tycoons got behind a rival scheme. Five months ago, before an ICC examiner, this new group declared that it had funds to build a $7,000,000 line from Grants Pass, 15 miles south of Leland on the Southern Pacific, across the coastal range to Crescent City, 97 miles south...
...hundred years ago next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built...
Died. Captain John Lake Young, 84, builder in 1906 of Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Atlantic City, N. J. "Cap" Young's home, surrounded by a lawn and marble statuary, standing in the middle of the pier and over the sea, is registered in Atlantic City directories as "No. 1 Atlantic Ocean...