Word: highland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ecuador, certain highland and riverdwelling Indian tribes were visited and studies were begun of their languages and racial origins. For two years the museum has participated in a pioneer investigation of the racial elements in eastern Tibet in an attempt to discover the nucleus of the Mongoloid type, and has recently returned the expedition to the important region for two more years of study...
...number of truck makers are specialists. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.'s product is popular with municipalities for road building and snow removal. Marmon-Herrington also makes four-wheel drives, largely for the Army. Hug, another contractors' and municipal truck, is made in Highland, Ill. Few people suspect that Yale & Towne (locks) is a builder of electric trucks...
...language by listening to his landlady's children. He got a job with the John R. Keim mills in Buffalo, sold automobile parts to Henry Ford, went to work for Ford Motor Co. when Mr. Ford bought out John R. Keim, became production manager at the Highland Park plant. In 1921 he left Mr. Ford, in 1922 turned up at Chevrolet, became Chevrolet's president two years later. So well did he apply his Ford training to Chevrolet production that in 1927 more than a million Chevrolets were turned out and Mr. Ford had to scrap Model...
...Schwab at his home. Schwab committed himself to the extent of going there, heard Morgan's offer to buy out Carnegie, consulted Mrs. Carnegie as to the most diplomatic way to present the project to the tough, white-bearded Scot who spent half his time in his Highland castle and who had planned for 30 years to retire. She advised a game of golf. On the St. Andrews links in Westchester Schwab described the proposal. When Carnegie agreed the "greatest corporate monster in history" was organized...
...peak. It was a perfect frontier night, cold and clear with a half moon. In the valley the General waited. At dawn he heard his Indian rifles sniping back at the Haji's son's snipers. The honor of storming the Pass went to the white men of the Highland Light. They advanced in deployed formation while their batteries threw metal over the Pass...