Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Union had missed two industrial revolutions in its business: 1) from easily-torn sulphite bags to sulphate bags (made of tough tan papers called "Kraft" by the trade); 2) from expensive northern spruce to cheap southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south...
With the third chapter-"Doctoring Under Difficulties"-Wild Animal World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a...
Elephant
Fortnight ago, the small-time circus of onetime cinema Cowboy Jack Hoxie. played Independence, Mo. Among the menagerie was a 57-year-old female performing elephant named Mena, ballyhooed as the "Largest Female Pachyderm in Captivity." Cowboy Hoxie decided that Mena, her trainer, and his pinto pony were costing too...
Babe was captured in India at the age of ten or eleven. She was transported to the London Zoo where she remained until boisterous Showman Barnum blandly cajoled her away from the directors for $10,000. With his circus, she performed all over the U. S. and Europe. In later...