Word: fremont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax was a War baby. Sired in 1917, by American Metal, the company took over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...
...reputation of a high-tempered, comely, not-always-truthful Jacobean lady whom legend has confounded with others of the same name. WITHOUT GREASE-Frank R. Kent- Morrow ($2.50). Collection of the syndicated columns of the U. S.'s most hard-boiled political commentator. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, AMERICAN -Mrs. Fremont Older-Appleton-Century ($4). Authorized biography of the publisher, by the widow of San Francisco's famed liberal editor. FOG AND MEN ON BERING SEA-Max Miller-Button ($3). Max Miller covers the Alaskan waterfront on a Government boat. Illustrated with photographs...
...attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself. He has heard bold sermons even in First Church, out of the side of the mouth of popular, liberal Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle...
...sketches dealing largely with Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas scenes and characters, Feliciana offers few surprises to readers of So Red the Rose. Sitting in an old plantation house, the author broods over the career of a dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire engines...
...Afterbirths. Practically all animals, including some primitive women, eat their own afterbirths. The practice apparently is good for the mother and probably, through her milk, for the child. Dr. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles. He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis...