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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These relics were found in 1931 by James Edward Dodd, a railroad brakeman who had staked out mining claims near Beardmore, and was digging and blasting in his spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late...
...Kennedy's piece on industry, dramatizing the march of monopolies. With John T. Flynn, who ridicules the proposition that Business can govern itself, Kennedy calls for government regulation of monopolies, not their dismemberment. "Let us not," advises Kennedy, "mistake the monopolist for a poor boy trying to get along...
...month survey flight around the North Atlantic in 1933-the days when, on their way home, they landed at the Cape Verde Islands on their way to South America, found the sea too rough to permit a takeoff, returned to Africa and waited impatiently for wind strong enough to get their heavily loaded Lockheed Sirius into...
...Islands were hot, dusty, windy, dirty, and the Lindberghs were worried about the heavy seas which threatened their plane. Bathurst, in Gambia, was pleasant and clean and the English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...
This first novel moves at such a rate, contains so many fights, explosions, ambushes, traps, gun battles and get aways that even devoted lovers of adventure stories are likely to find themselves dazed by it. It begins when a cool Western customer named Tom decides to try his luck gambling. No more imprudent decision was ever reached by a peace-loving citizen, for Tom found himself in the thick of three murders, eight fist fights, nine gun battles, with 28 corpses strewing the scene, not counting Indians...