Word: ailsa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...
...Lords Ailsa and Cassillis in their opinion of life on St. Kilda. A tiny peak of rock in the North Atlantic, 40 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when...
...Milligan (14,000); James M. Hopkins (12,826); Irenee du Pont (12,500); Frank H. Buhl (10,720). Other U. S. Steel shareholders: President Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft (1,072); Lawyer Elihu Root Jr. (1,300); Theodore Roosevelt (20 preferred); Packer Philip D. Armour (1,245); Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Secretary Mellon (3,428); President & Fellows of Harvard College (5,224 preferred); Union Theological Seminary (1,000 preferred...