Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course is to be open to 500 college men who have had either some training in the Japanese language, or, failing that, a Phi Beta Kappa college standing. The school, whose students will receive Navy pay ranging from $125 to $142, will be established at Boulder, Colorado, on or about January...
...give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into Parco. Union Pacific trains ran again...
Kaiser and Howard will make a fabulous team. Kaiser and his men, who helped put up Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world), are natural-born nose thumbers at nature...
Henry Kaiser was working at the same feverish pitch which permitted him to build Boulder Dam two years ahead of schedule, by which he cut the time for constructing a Liberty ship from 105 down to 46 days. He was frankly indulging in a vast piece of bluff; he frankly wanted the Army and the Administration to call his hand; thus, in the old American way, he would get a chance to make good or shut up. Bluntly he told the Senate Committees that his plan would not cut into the bomber program. He said he was planning to prepare...
...Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...