Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Stewart Mott, three-time (1912, 1913, 1918) mayor of Flint, Mich., is a bushy-browed, vigorous oldster of 77 who takes a mighty delight in bridge, dancing and thoroughbreds, and in managing his personal fortune, which is one of the biggest (an estimated $100 million) in the state. Over the past 17 years, he has also come to mean a lot more to the citizens of Flint (pop. 163,000). Through his Mott Foundation he has brought supervised recreation to thousands of schoolchildren. He has set their parents to studying hundreds of different courses in adult night classes...
Last week "Mr. Flint" was planning another million-dollar addition to the city's educational plant. Architects working with the Mott Foundation had just finished the blueprints for a new building for Flint Junior College, and Mott was working on plans to make the college itself a four-year campus. But first, he wanted to make sure that it would be a real community center-a place that every Flint citizen, young or old, would be proud of. "Then," said Mr. Flint, "I'll give 'em a million dollars. And then, we can talk about giving them...
Incidentally, Brandon, the next village, is the home of the world's last flint knapper and used to be famous for its flints which were exported to all parts of the world. Flints are still exported from Brandon to the U.S. for flintlock guns (some years ago a request was received from an Eskimo for flints for his tinderbox) and to West Africa for the same purpose. Sadly enough, the craft is rapidly dying out, and mining ceased with the death of the last flint miner some years...
...Flint. "I have never worked so hard on Labor Day before...
Grime's Graves was a center of industry of the Tardenoisian people-a shadowy race who inhabited England some 6,000 years ago. The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines. The center of their culture may have been the ring of pudding stones now in the foundation of the Chesham church...