Word: highland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...tough to have a name," was a three-year-old, 350-lb. female grizzly bear taken last month from Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear...
...lately been moving, away from Harlem and its rival evangelists, to farms, where working "Angels" can feed and support themselves. Pardonably proud was Father Divine to announce last week that he had bought a new Heaven, an estate in an exclusive neighborhood. The estate: 500-acre "Krum Elbow" near Highland-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. Most exclusive neighbor (1,800 ft. directly across the river): Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The seller: eccentric, Roosevelt-hating Socialite Howland Spencer...
...Highland Park, Mich...
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...