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...coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter of dinosaur eggs named Gilbert Elledy Gable. Since 1935 Gilbert Gable has wrought such changes in southwestern Oregon that the region has been called his "empire." Last week Emperor Gable was dethroned by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...late Cartoonist McCay won a dinner from skeptical George McManus and the late Cartoonist Clare Briggs when, after early experiments with a short Little Nemo film, in 1909 at the old Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn he projected Gertie, The Dinosaur, a 1,000-ft. animated cartoon. To make it he spent $50,000, took over a year to draw and film 10,000 pictures...
North and west of Pocatello, Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another...
...Chicago early this week 30 bright young men filed into a big, weathered mansard mansion on Prairie Avenue to begin a year's study of principles which have made that house and houses like it as ugly and obsolete as a dinosaur. The school in which they were enrolled and whose chances appeared excellent of profoundly affecting the habits of U. S. builders had a name exciting to all architects and designers: the New Bauhaus (Building House). Its right to that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because...
...villain of the garden world is an immigrant, the praying mantis, which compares to a bee as a dinosaur would to a man-were the dinosaur 60 feet long with eyes big as plate-glass windows and paws as long as automobiles. The praying mantis, harmless to man, has an insatiable appetite for insects, is willing to fight with anything edible up to cats and dogs-except ants. So voracious is the mantis' appetite for live food that when mating is completed, or sometimes even during mating, the female attacks the smaller male, holds him between powerful pincers, calmly...