Word: aqueducts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, the onetime jockey weighs 200 lbs., lives in a little white house surrounded by a little white fence on Long Island's Aqueduct racetrack. There he boards and trains horses (not only for Mr. Woodward but for Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, Ogden Phipps and others), has developed more outstanding distance racers in the past decade than any other U. S. trainer. He remembers the habits and mannerisms of all his past charges (about 50 a year), but the one he likes best to talk about is Gallant Fox, his favorite. He likes to tell how, in his first...
...Colorado River Aqueduct will lift a river higher than any river has ever been lifted before. It will divert a billion gallons a day of the copious Colorado River and lift that water 1,600 ft.-a small mountain's height - and drop it down again 340 miles from where...
...course, southern Californians who get only 15 inches of rain in an average year. Their greatest waterboy of all time was a Grand Old Man, the late William Mulholland. He fetched them a river from the snowy slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches...
...have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper his tools. But he learned how. Last week the tunnel was finished - 2,000 ft. through solid rock. William Schmidt expected at last to make some money from his claims...
...William Ziegler's homely little two-year-old colt, El Chico: the $13,500 Junior Champion Stakes, his seventh victory in seven starts; at the Aqueduct Racetrack, Long Island. No. 1 juvenile of 1938, El Chico has earned $84,100 for his owner, who bought him for $2,700 at last year's Saratoga yearling sales...