Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
John Isaac Mange is chairman and president of Associated Gas & Electric Co.. giant public utility system that has more security holders (190,000) than any utility except A. T. & T. and Cities Service. But the mainspring of the company is Howard Colwell Hopson, vice president and treasurer...
...prepared a set of six page spreads. Col. Knox was enthusiastic. In four days this publicity was manufactured free and distributed to dailies throughout the land with the request that they run it without charge as their contribution to the C. R. O. drive. Typical theme: a row of giant locomotives with this headline: "Let's go America! Put those idle dollars back to work and start things rolling...
...Futcher '32, chairman of the Winthrop House Committee, gave an illustrated talk last night in the Senior Common Room on "Giants, Dwarfs, and the Pituitary Gland." Some of the famous freaks of human development were described, including Jeffery Hudson, a court jester in the time of Charles First, who although only 18 inches tall killed an opponent in a duel and lived to the age of 63; and the Russian giant Machnow, who attained the height of nine feet, three inches. Slides were shown explaining the experimental gigantism produced in rats by the injection of pituitary gland extracts...
Unwanted DO-X. Soon after her arrival in the U. S. last August the giant flying boat DO-X was beached at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. for overhaul of her twelve engines.. There she has remained while Dornier officials tried without success to interest U. S. groups in chartering the boat for coastwise service. Last week it was announced that the DO-X will be flown back to Germany in May. Meanwhile her commander, Capt. Franz Christiansen, and all but two members of her crew sailed to Germany for a vacation...