Word: utah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record (311.42 m.p.h...
...California, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah...
Last week in Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district...
...mountain ridge in Summit County, Utah, newshawks discovered a granite tombstone erected several years ago by Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers. Inscription: "In memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-36." Explained a local county commissioner: ''What the stonecutters really meant was, 'In appreciation of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs ("terrible lizards"). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens...