Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow Skiing in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 12 3 in. new powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Poor 6 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 37 4 new over 33 windblown powder Cohway, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 new fluffy Dartmouth Region, N.H. Good 10 6 in. new Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Fair 24 5 in, new over 19 base Fryeburg, Me. Cloudy Good 11 7 new over 4 in. base Greenfield, Mass. Cloudy Fair 3 1 in, granular on hard crust Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 in. new fluffy Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 4 in. new powder Laconia (Gilford...
...first 200 miners to reach the mine-deep were lowered to the end of the shaft and the cars were reeled back to the starting point. Some 250 more miners scrambled on the 26 little cars and started down the slope. Suddenly there came a cannon-like crack-the cable had snapped off about 1,000 feet behind the last car. "She's running away!" shouted one collier...
Whaling is not what it used to be in the days of Moby Dick. Stinking old sailing whalers have given way to stinking little steamers. Earringed harpooners have yielded to modern marksmen, who earn as much as $10,000 a season for shooting harpoons from a cannon. Instead of being dragged alongside, the whale is pulled aboard a "floating factory" ship and converted into oil right on the spot...
Franconia--Four inches of powder on 21 inch base at 4,000 feet on Cannon Mt. Good skiing on first half-mile of all tracks. Lowere part of Cannon Mt. is fair. tEmporature about 10 at summit...
HERBERT D. CANNON...