Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President summoned to the White House and conferred with E. C. Plummer and W. S. Hill, Commissioners of the Shipping Board. Important matters were believed brewing because the President wishes the disposition of the Government's merchant marine placed in the hands of Admiral Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the Shipping Board wishes to retain its powers. Recommendations to this end may be placed by the President before the next Congress...
Watts struck his head against the bottom, while diving at Watch Hill, R. I., on August 20, and suffered concuasion of the brain and a severely strained back. He will be unable to now until later this autumn, but is expected to be in good shape for winter crew work...
Last week despatches called attention to one of the ramifications of Henry Ford's business not hitherto generally known. Mr. Ford owns one of the richest garnet mines in the world. It is located on the side of Bear Hill in Danbury...
...garnets from Bear Hill will never grace the tiaras of dowagers ?for the stones are cloudy and flawed?but they are excellent for Mr. Ford's purposes. There is a seam of mica schist outcropping on Bear Hill with the garnets set so thickly in it, that in parts they compose 85% of the whole by weight, and the seam is expected to average 60%. Mr. Ford's engineers are still exploring the deposit, drilling holes into the hard garnets which blunt the steel drills used, with astonishing rapidity. In addition the outcropping is being blasted and carried away...
...these heirs to a glorious past and spirants to an even more glorious future greet each other from Hong Kong and Havana, from Beacon Hill and Devil's Gulch, what a dramatic moment demanding the imagination of a Hugo to appreciate! As East meets West and North meets South, is there no master's pen to do justice to the event? There...