Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Francisco Zepeda, Eskimo, was arrested when, during a cold snap, he stole two fountain pens, tried to trade them for a pair of earmuffs...
...Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that thirst, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of the present Emperor Haile Selassie ("Power of Trinity") of Abyssinia. From it too sprang his wife...
...next few months Fleet Street newspapers "sold" some 5,000,000 volumes of Dickens, in a mad scramble for new readers. Dickens was only a starter. Washing machines came next. Then sets" of china, electric irons, cricket bats & balls, cameras. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, sets of "modern classics." Fountain pens, fancy pencils, stockings, underwear, wrist watches, pillow cases, pyjamas. Lord Beaverbrook outfitted his canvassers with samples of boots, coats, pants and shoes, sent them west to show Welsh miners how they might clothe a whole family by reading the Express for eight weeks...
...railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable to cope with a financial find of such magnitude...
George at Southampton, he led his retinue through Cherbourg's terminal with its American bar and soda water fountain, along the massive pier. He peered amiably at the ribbons of breakwaters. Then he reviewed a naval demonstration, ate a meal, zipped back to Paris...