Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes and a party of friends were last week on their way to Santa Fe to see more Indians. Near a filling station at a settlement known as Velarde the car, driven by one Frank Allen of Gallup, shot past another automobile at over 60 m.p.h., skidded in the gravel on the roadside, turned over four times. Mrs. Ickes' skull was fractured. Driver Allen later died of a fractured pelvis and the other passengers, Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, onetime feature writer for the Chicago Tribune, and Ibrahim Seyfullah, Third Secretary to the Turkish Embassy, were critically injured...
Minnesota. William H. Jensen of Browns Valley was having his driveway repaired. In a load of gravel dumped out on his road he spied a hand-shaped stone implement and fragments of human bones. He notified Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota who hustled to the scene with six students, probed the gravel pit. Seven weapons were found in all, some of them true Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years...
...Laughlin's two poems likewise deserve especial mention; they show a sensitive ear and nice perceptions. In the company of one of Ezra Pound's "Cautos," as they are here, they have the appearance of two demure chicks in the wake of a portentous mother hen rumaging in the gravel of modern life...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...
...start of highway construction took a few hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...