Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
...surprising aspect of the six-hour day is that from it concrete advantages accrue to both employer and employee. W. K. Kellogg has used the plan in his plant at Battle Creek since December, 1930, and he has made some startling discoveries concerning its use in mechanical factories. Machinery designed to turn out 165 pieces per minute is working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch...
...guided the Good People, greed, extortion and ingenuity guided the Bad People. Thus $3 is a huge sum, and always has been, to some of Chapei's desperate poor, yet $3 was extorted again and again by Chinese sampanmen to ferry a refugee across the 60-ft. wide Soochow Creek to doubtful safety...
...couple of watch ticks. Last week he lowered the hull of his Miss America IX to make her cut through ripples instead of bounce over them, then claimed he had beaten the world's record by more than the requisite .5 m.p.h.† He covered the Indian Creek course of one nautical mile (6.080 ft.) southward in 36.87 sec., northward in 37.35 sec. and computed his average speed, subject to official confirmation, as 111.712 land m.p.h. In Manhattan- Joie Ray's greatest mile race was run in 1925. His time-4 min. 12 sec.-equalled the indoor world...
...long, rakish craft skimmed the wavelets of Indian Creek, Fla. one day last week, faster than a boat had ever traveled before, but a watch-tick too slow, officially, to break the world's record. The boat was Miss America IX; her pilot, Garfield ("Gar") Wood; her time, 96.20 nautical m. p. h. Because he had failed to exceed Kaye Don's time by a full 5 m. p. h. Gar Wood could not claim a record...