Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats in Soldier Field. Police closed the gates, but reopened them under pressure from a mob outside. At 7 p. m. there were 100,000, average age 18. By the time the swing session began, 200,000 screaming, jittering, snake-dancing, stampeding youngsters were at large in the stadium, and hell was loose...
...reason: Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Part of the 80,000 expected in the lakefront stadium watched the sharp-shooting Texan baffle the Chicago Bears in the National League playoff last winter and they're asking themselves, "how can more college boys stops...
Into New York City's sports stadium on Randall's Island one night last week marched some 550 young men and women from the earth's six continents. They tramped across the field bearing red torches and the flags of 58 nations. The crowd of 23,000 cheered their foreign songs, their folk dances, their gymnastics, a collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists...
After a rehearsal of the Portland, Ore. stadium Philharmonic orchestra, Cleveland's Dr. Artur Rodzinski went to spend a day with his favorite animals: goats. On the way out he discussed them. Excerpt: "Goats are the sweetest pets, better than a dog. No, no, no, only the gentleman goat smells bad. You must put him in a pen half a mile away from the lady goats...
...problem of the peeping urchin at the knothole. When radio stretches the knothole to fit its public's enormous ear, the problem swells to lawsuit size. Pittsburgh Athletic Co. has banned any broadcasting from the Pittsburgh Pirates' home grounds (similar bans are in force at the Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field). But at the beginning of the baseball season Pittsburgh Athletic Co. sold to General Mills, Inc., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., for broadcasting over Stations WWSW and NBC's KDKA (Pittsburgh), exclusive rights for games played by the Pirates away from home...