Word: american
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently you printed a letter re the U. S. Government's not paying rent for cemeteries in France where American World War dead are buried. I'm glad the matter was cleared up. Can you straighten out this rumor-did the U. S. pay rent for trenches occupied by American boys in France in 1918? Many people believe this is so. I'd like to know whether it is true...
...less than 50 miles from the border, the greatest iron deposit on the American continent, our ore running 60 to 68%, with millions of tons which can be picked up by steam shovel. This is not far from Presidio on the Texas border line. Our engineers predict that at some future time in world history, the western hemisphere will get all its ore from this section...
Passengers on the motorship Challenger (American South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and a British cruiser, also a French cruiser. Challenger's passengers then realized they beheld part of the far-flung Allied hunt for Nazi sea raiders...
...Wireless Set. Late in October 1939, clever Gestapo agents, posing as discontented Germans, managed to make contact with certain naïve British intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three American steel tubes; and a secret code. The set was not so good; had to have some German parts put in. The Germans carried it back into Germany, and the Britons at once began sending in the closest secrets of their Government...
...photograph of a rare outdoor night scene showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...