Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maas, the attack on the Post Office Department's leasing system was carried forward in the Senate by North Dakota's Senator Nye and Wisconsin's Senator Elaine. Exclaimed Senator Nye: "The story at St. Paul smells to high Heaven. ... It is a story that possibly rivals the Teapot Dome and other naval oil reserve leases...
Signer Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of transmission without wires and a devout Catholic, is daily supervising installation of the papal radio apparatus in a special one-story building from which sprout antennae 180 ft. high (but not higher than the dome of St. Peter...
...Great Smoky Mountains lie between Tennessee and North Carolina, a primitive wilderness of virgin forests, fast-flowing streams, sky-tumbling peaks. Clingman Dome rises 6,619 rocky feet in the air.* Besides swarms of game, the woods shelter hundreds of mountaineer families, clannish, illiterate, strongly Anglo-Saxon, who preserve their tradition of armed feuds and moonshine. Six years ago lowlanders who had enjoyed vacations in the Great Smokies formed the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, asked the U. S. Department of the Interior to create a national park on the tract. Congress marked off 704,000 acres as suitable, promised...
Hills North Dome alone could make its gushing felt throughout the industry. Geologists estimate that it contains some four billion dollars worth of oil and natural gas. Standard Oil Co. of California owns
...this dome, the U. S. 40%, small miscellaneous companies the balance. Wasted Billion. Declared Secretary Wilbur to the Kettleman Hills operators: "A billion dollars in resources will be wasted unless we can work out a method of orderly development of this great field. As minority landholders we want to see an agreement that will stop sinking of wells that call for offset drillings, with ring after ring of offsets. We want to participate in a voluntary plan by which all holders of proven land can benefit. We want to avoid 'drowning' the gasoline market with the flood...