Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paved roads, 6,000 mi. of new gravel roads. He built the $5,000,000 State Capitol, the $150,000 executive mansion, the State University's $1,500,000 School of Medicine at New Orleans. Thanks to him, twelve new bridges are about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town...
...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...
Bridges: 10) Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R.'s five-span bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo., including a 408-ft. lift span, world's longest, which can be raised vertically to give clearance to river traffic, 11) The world's biggest all-welded bridge, 161 ft. long at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, over the Skoda Works' railroad yards. The previous record-holder was the 134-ft. bridge at Chicopee Falls, Mass...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
...nerves, full of wild talk about a mystery man with a red beard and black goggles who is out to get them all. Gernicot is shot, Gribbe stabbed, Tignol abducted. Meanwhile the police have not been idle, have detailed Wenceslas Vorobeitchik, nicknamed Wens, to trace the murders. Spick & span Monsieur Wens, whose progress in the case is registered by the way he wears his trousers, creased or draped, adds to the horror by identifying the murderer as one of the already murdered...