Word: wintered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business slump of last fall, (the Roosevelt Recession), had by winter weakened President Roosevelt's hold upon Congress to the slipping point. Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids. But the Recession gave Franklin Roosevelt a reason for thinking about other things besides reforms, and a long, windy, fruitless digression by Congress on the subject of lynching gave him time to calculate. In late January, he created a diversion by calling for a Big Navy. In February, he called for $250,000,000 extra money for Relief. In April...
...million dollars had been poured into pari-mutuel betting machines at the opening of the nearby Santa Anita racetrack the day before-the first appearance of horseracing in Los Angeles County in 25 years. That was the beginning of the merchants' woes. For 50-odd days each winter for four succeeding winters, a half million of hard-earned Los Angeles dollars were wagered every day on horse races. The more the merchants tried to discourage betting (by newspaper campaigns and roadside billboards), the more entrenched it became as a major Los Angeles pastime...
...Last winter when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...
...Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight's $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap...
...fine October morning 40 years ago, the steamer Yukoner, bound upriver for Dawson with passengers and supplies, tied up for the winter in a small tributary of the Yukon, 1,400 miles from Dawson. The weather was getting cold, one of the Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself...