Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember the two-room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...
...Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...publicly admitted his apprehension. Senator McNary, who is up for re-election in Oregon, may have difficulty in winning this year because of Townsendite opposition. Representatives Isabella Greenway of Arizona and Earl C. Michener of Michigan have both sought political safety by going over bag & baggage to the Townsend camp. Senator Borah has so antagonized Townsendites, by advocating pensions of only $50 to $60 a month, that he wrote to a friend in Idaho...
Snorting at this, quarterdeckers of the Royal Navy recalled last week the incident a few months ago on the Riviera when the aides-de-camp of Edward of Wales noticed at the last moment that he was about to inspect a British warship bareheaded. As this was contrary to Navy rules and tradition, they hastily pressed upon H. R. H. a shapeless white hat which he angrily refused to wear (TIME, Sept...
Engineer Somervell wasted no time. Within two weeks President Roosevelt pressed a button at Hyde Park, which exploded a dynamite charge which shot a fountain of Florida earth skyward. Gangs of WPA workers and mules were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired...