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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record for the American Inferno in 1939, when he skied 3.8 miles from the top of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch, N.H., with a vertical descent of 4,300 feet, is 6 minutes 30 seconds. Sig Engl plummeted down Mt. Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
Little Women (MGM) is Hollywood's second try at exploiting Louisa May Alcott's genteel, durable New England tearjerker. A shade less ambitious than its 1933 predecessor (which starred Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), it still jerks tears with easy efficiency...
Cambridge residents may not have appreciated experimental research, but they did enjoy the bright, colorful display of rare plants and trees. The Gardens were a showplace for visitors; several generations of citizens spent summer afternoons in the shade of the big Austrian Pine and the prehistoric Gingko tree...
...Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
...announcement came almost two years to the day (Feb. 13, 1947) after Alberta's famed Leduc well had started production. In those two years Alberta's output had risen to 45,000 barrels a day, was just a shade short of meeting the average daily oil requirements (55,000 barrels) of Canada's three prairie provinces...