Word: cumberlandism
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...refuel-evidently on their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...
...Scheer. Reports from South Atlantic waters soon evidenced new activity by both French and British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there when necessary for fuel and water. Ships reported by name were the British Achilles, Cumberland and Ajax. No fresh attacks by Scheer or Deutschland were reported, suggesting either that their fuel was low or they were lying low. In Mexico, one of a pair of carrier pigeons (a hawk got the other) was reported brought in by an Indian with a German naval commander...
...operated, and not overloaded with the fixed charges that have broken the backs of many Class I roads,* efficient "Old Reliable" has never been in receivership, has passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...
...that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
...talk will accompany the showing of four films: "Heart of Spain"; "China Strikes Park"; "People of the Cumberland"; and "Daydreams" a 1926 British film featuring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester...