Word: section
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While Manhattan was the only borough in New York City to decrease in population, it is still the most densely inhabited section, with 84,383 persons per square mile...
...Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...hobby, radio became his career. He studied it at Stanford University, kept abreast of its progress during his graduate years at Harvard. After making a survey of aviation economics under a fellowship of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, he perceived and took radio work for his own cross section of the air industry...
...Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before...
Married. Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., 55, chief of the 4th Section (supplies and evacuation) of General Pershing's Wartime General Staff; General Charles Gates Dawes's assistant in organizing the Bureau of Budget in 1921; now aid to the Assistant Secretary of War, Frederik Huff Payne (TIME, May 5); and Mrs. Florence DuBois, 36, daughter of the late James Barber, co-founder of Barber Steamship Lines; in Manhattan...