1930s ENGINEERING FEATS
On opening day in 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to it as a "35 million dollar steel harp"
the Golden Gate Bridge
Born in Southampton in 1929, this first lady studied at Vassar & at the Sorbonne
Jackie Kennedy
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" requests, "Buy me some peanuts &" this
Cracker Jacks
In January 1996 Bill Clinton challenged congress to "Never, ever" do this again; cut to October 2013
shut down (the government)
A toothed strip of plastic for arranging hair goes to its grave as a burial chamber
comb & tomb
On May 1, 1931 the lights were turned on in this NYC skyscraper with the press of a button in the White House
the Empire State Building
This NYC native based "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" on a German folk tale
(Washington) Irving
Despite what you might have heard, Hostess said this golden snack has a shelf life of 45 days, not 25 years
a Twinkie
In July 1960 the U.S. stopped imports of sugar from this country that was cozying up to the USSR
Cuba
A word meaning to secretly & illegally import goods just wants to cuddle
smuggle & snuggle
This massive project was the first in North America to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza
the Hoover Dam
A New York Public Library for the Performing Arts exhibit on this man includes a self-portrait from when he helped write a failed musical
Al Hirschfeld
Bear with us; Honey Maid makes these grahams in chocolatey chip as well as in chocolate
Teddy Grahams
Trying to cut the surplus in 1883, the government took the excise tax off everything but these 2 items
tobacco and liquor
A word meaning to move hastily & with urgency becomes a classic wordplay board game
Scrabble & scramble
A highway completed in 1938 allowed one to drive from Miami to this southernmost city in the continental U.S.
Key West
The NYC-born son of Jamaican immigrants, he took over the Army's largest command in 1989
Colin Powell
In April 2011 Diamond Foods bought this brand of crisps in a can for $2.35 billion
Pringles
The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in this city helped heal the wounds after the Civil War
Philadelphia
It means to exert to the utmost, perhaps rowing on a narrow passage of water connecting 2 large bodies
strain & strait
Between 1937 & 1939 NYC's North Beach Airport was enlarged, becoming what's now this airport
LaGuardia
This "'S Wonderful" composer was a Brooklyn boy who died tragically young at age 38
(George) Gershwin
Mars Inc. owns this chocolate, caramel & nougat candy bar (though in a scientific way, Mars is but a small part of it)
a Milky Way
He founded Rhode Island, the first colony in America to allow complete religious freedom
Roger Williams
An individual's style of speaking morphs into a class of literature that includes novels
diction & fiction