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...development will cost about $500,000, of which nearly $250,000 will be needed for the tramway alone. The cars will be operated similarly to the Cannon Mountain system at Franconia...
...Battle for Cata lonia was the greatest military engagement since the World War. Although the number of soldiers was far less than that on the Western front in 1914-18, the Rebel concentration of artillery was as great as that used by the Germans at Verdun- about one cannon to every ten yards. In the northern sector of the offensive, near Balaguer. Generalissimo Franco's troops pounded the enemy with a fierce artillery barrage, then bombarded the Loyalists from the air, then attacked with from 100 to 150 tanks. Finally his infantry moved...
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...