Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...dawning in Cape Breton Island's long-troubled coalfields. Most of the old bitterness between management and labor was gone, and they were working together to increase production. (Only two years ago, a Royal Commission had reported: "The men ... so distrusted the present management that they could see no hope for ... cooperation between men and management in improving the efficiency of production...
Elephants for a Fee. It was by hunting that Pretorius made his living and his legendary reputation. His lifetime bag for elephants alone was 557; and after one six-month safari his take for ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush...
Later in the summer, Professor Johannes Brondsted, a Viking expert from Denmark, will stop by and look over the findings. He will also judge other "Norse" relics (mostly suspect) such as "mooring holes" on Cape Cod, and the Kensington stone, with its alleged runic inscriptions, which was found in Minnesota...
Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...