Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Opening of the 45-day winter season of the Miami Jockey Club at Hialeah racetrack, Miami...
...WINTER SPORTS...
...sire to be of the greatest service to man kind." Thus, in Cleveland last week, spoke John D. Rockefeller to industrialists celebrating the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Standard Oil. It was not Mr. Rockefeller in person. He was hiding his 90-year-old body away from the winter at Ormond Beach, Fla. To Cleveland he had sent his likeness in a talking cinema, the first he ever made...
...spacious, quiet city, Washington is ideally suited to the winter diversions of starlings, which chiefly include chaffering, feeding, dropping, breeding. Nesting in eaves and sycamore trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, crowding the gutters of the White House roof, congregating on the cornices of the Capitol, they made the scene monotonous. So many roosted and fluttered among the lights of the Fox Theatre that patrons found it difficult to read the names of cinema players there exhibited...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...