Word: elke
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...Broadway game, an itinerant and expensive Manhattan crap tournament, is often patronized by 0. K. Coakley, Long George, Dollar John, Titanic, Fred Perry, the Elk City Flash...
...Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short of insulting to a little wooden ship who had made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told him to put his boat on a starting line. They would race from Cincinnati upstream to New Richmond, 22 miles. Bells jangled, smoke...
Richfield Oil Co. and Pan-American Western Petroleum, marking the practical retirement of Edward L. Doheny (Elk Hills) from the oil business...
...half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...
...being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi