Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From engines and a pump wagon, parked on the city's side of the street, the firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their...
Once a year half-a-million goose stepping Germans swarm into Nürnberg, "the most German of all German cities," join with another half-million gaping visitors for the greatest political circus in the world, the seven-day Nazi Party Congress. Days before the Congress opened last week, 550 special trains, seething with black, brown, green-shirted Storm Troopers, Special Guards, Labor Corps, Hitler Youth were pouring into the railway stations, disgorging their loads in the allotted ten minutes time. Shouldering their packs, the military and semimilitary corps clumped away to their temporary homes in 13 miniature tent cities...
...mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett piled up a clear profit of $507,000 for 1935, which made it financially the best track in the U. S. (TIME...
...retired, got a new silver cup from another enthusiast, Joseph W. Powell of United Shipyards. Inc. Run off just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...
...known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization of $50,000,000. Wingfield's share was $6,000,000, built up in less than a year from a $500 investment...