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There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac...
...Down the gravel-covered driveway and through the East Gate of the White House grounds swung the long, black, open automobile that is known around the Executive offices as "the Queen Mary." In the back seat sat the President, wearing a seersucker suit, doffing his battered Panama hat when the crowds in the street recognized him. A crowd of Government workers gathered around the gate of the Washington Naval Yard, where the U. S. S. Potomac, White House yacht, was tied up to the dock awaiting President and party; the crowd gave a stifled cheer; the President...
Also included of the rolls, according to the reports which they gave on the questionnaire, are a Communist organizer, a writer of "drugstore classics," a laborer, a policeman, a scalp treatment specialist, a milk-bottle-packager, a sand and gravel expert, a wood preserver, a dog caterer, an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, and 17 unemployed, one of whom described himself as "looking for work; hoping for relief...
...fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...miss a bet, Christ saw a business opportunity: California, No. 1 U. S. gold producer (25%), is salted with not-quite-commercial flecks and traces of gold. Why not pan the gravel for it before whisking the gravel to Shasta? As the first gravel moved over the conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...