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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands 1,500 ft. from shore, its ocean view blocked by tall apartment houses and hotels. Its 1½acres which cost...
...chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences...
...ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction is provided by sections...
...minimum, skiers all over the world have heretofore had to go to the Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort of the Western Hemisphere, will this week open to a covey of 250 skiers and celebrities topped by Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...Rawhide, and a chattery, 60-lb., temperamental female called Jelly Roll. For almost a week they traveled, the beaver riding in a huge, specially constructed tank, Grey Owl staying beside it in the baggage car. At the first site chosen, on Riding Mountain, the beaver built a house 8 ft. high and 16 ft. across, Jelly Roll gave birth to four beaver kittens. Then the enlarged party moved on, leaving established highways at Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert Park traveling 30 mi. by water to Ajawaan Lake, where everything was packed over a half-mile portage and the journey finished...