Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production...
...which are the latest statistics and charts of sales by product and region, of profits, of raw materials, etc., etc., so Mr. Hurja has at his elbow a compendious black volume. He can quickly turn through it to any state or subdivision. If he opens it on the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, he finds a salmon-pink chart indicating that the Congressman there is a Republican. If he were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns at the last election, the results of all polls and straw votes, public...
...painting by the famous 16th century artist Domenico Theotocopuli, known as El Greco, has been anonymously donated to join two other pictures by the same painter already owned by the Fogg Museum...
Last November 41 defendants went on trial in Chicago for using the mails to defraud 70,000 Midwesterners out of $1,350,000 (TIME, Dec. 2). The dupes were supposed to divide a fabulous estate left by Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century English sea rover. Wholesale exonerations had so reduced the ranks of the accused that last week only eight of those originally indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker...
...sacred city of Benin. There they found palaces of red clay polished until they shone like marble, great treasures of ivory, brass and bronze, a broad main street stretching to the horizon. In the 400 years that followed, only a handful of white travelers followed them. In the early 16th Century one King of Benin ordered his whole nation converted to Christianity in exchange for a white wife, provided by Portuguese missionaries. The conversion was short-lived, though later generations of the Bini adopted wholeheartedly the custom of crucifying their human sacrifices. By 1896 Britain had already established control...