Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried Minnesota and Saskatchewan wheat to Buffalo and Montreal. At Alpena and Calcite, Mich., they loaded limestone for Chicago and Buffalo...
...Fort Smith, Ark., the New York Giants beat the Cleveland Indians 9-to-2, on expert pitching from veteran Hal Schumacher. In Philadelphia, the American League Athletics and the National League Phillies, both rated as likely tail-enders in their respective leagues, began a three-out-of-five-game series for their city championship. In Tulsa, Okla., the world champion New York Yankees won their 13th straight game, 8-to-3, against the Tulsa Oilers. In Daytona, Fla., the St. Louis Cardinals started north via a miserable record of four victories in 14 exhibition games...
Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family...
...Lord Tweedsmuir's press conference, they drove to Fort Myer for a cavalry review (21 guns), laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were lunched in state by Secretary Hull at the dignified Sulgrave Club, voyaged aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac to Mt. Vernon where they were met by President & Mrs. Roosevelt, saw the tomb and house of Washington, were guests at a state dinner at the White House...
With gold worth something over $1,000,000,000 already stocked away in its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25), the U. S. Treasury last week announced similar plans for insuring the safety of its silver. Soon the Treasury plans to ask for bids on a building similar to Fort Knox depository, but somewhat larger, that will be built on a four-acre tract near the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, will hold 2,000,000,000 oz. of silver...