Word: beaver
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...cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where he and the Resettlement Administration are now sole tenants -when he received from the U. S. Consul in Kenya Colony official assurance that his long forgotten record of shooting six leopards...
...gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden of fixed charges. A long price war with Sewell Avery...
...Beaver, Pa., after Mrs. John Fields had testified in a non-support suit that her husband "hadn't taken a bath in 15 years," Judge Henry Wilson announced he would nevertheless give custody of the two children to the father. "Maybe he'll take a bath," explained Judge Wilson. "Solomon has to take a long shot once in a while...
...years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery...
...time a cabin was built in the centre of the 2,300 sq. mi. of wilderness that make up the Park, winter was approaching, and the beaver were kept indoors. Transplanted beaver try to get back to their old homes before a freeze-up, particularly when they have stored away a winter's food supply, and in their anxiety swim long distances, get lost, "and run around in a manner directly contrary to their usual habits." Grey Owl had already wired his wife, Anahareo, who was visiting her parents in Ontario, to come help him, and the two Indians...