Word: glens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, President Smith had a talk with Farmers Co-op President Glen Boger. Boger, no special fan of painting, picked up the idea at once. Says he: "I went into it purely for public relations. When you can get 40,000 people into your front door, that's pretty good for any business." The alliance hopes to do business, too. Their paintings, priced from $12 to $3,000, will be on sale for six months. But, sales or no sales, the alliance is now well out of its old, ivory-tower doldrums and ready to paint anything...
...week in the rocketing Alberta oil boom. A public auction of government-owned oil and natural-gas leases totaled $12,881,436, surpassing the previous record for a one-day sale by more than $3,000,000. One of the leases, for a 160-acre plot in the Bonnie Glen field southwest of Edmonton, was sold to the Texaco Exploration Co. for $3,110,000, the highest price ever paid for a single parcel of Alberta oil land...
...fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet's men use the idle time to cut the next distilling season's peat fuel from the nearby bog of Faemussach...
...Smugglers. Glenlivet men have been cutting Faemussach peat since 1824, when Grant's great-grandfather, George Smith, took out a license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist...
...take West Side Drive into Henry Hudson Parkway, go through two toll gates, follow sign to Connecticut, turn right off highway on to Cross Country Parkway, continue about mile and half, follow sign Kimball Avenue, Bronxville, exit to right, left on Kimball Avenue, go straight, turn right on the Glen Washington Road...