Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands...
...Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland statistician, sees the U. S. economic condition in the round. Said he last week: "There is evidence that the savings of the American people are so enormous that funds are pressing for investment on every hand. The question is, where will these funds seek employment?" Careful preceptor, he explained that surplus money might be spent on 1) plant extensions, 2) building construction, 3) real estate speculation, 4) commodity speculation, 5) security speculation, 6) foreign investments. These outlets, as far as they are honest, have been practically filled. Therefore, the too much money that remains presages...
...Boulder, Col...
...Died. Col. John W. McCullough, 67, distiller of famed Green River whiskey, onetime member of the Republican National Committee; of apoplexy, in Owensboro...
...Died. Col. William Lawson Peel. 77, banker, music lover; of heart failure; in Atlanta. What Otto H, Kahn is to New York, what Samue1 Insull is to Chicago, Colonel Peel has been to Atlanta...