Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want you to go emptyhanded. Here are two gifts representing the best products of the blessed land of America...
...signed another Pickering company charter-for the newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet of California white and sugar pine, reached production of 1,000,000 feet of finished lumber...
...Alaska, the Australian-born soldier of fortune Captain George Hubert Wilkins, leading the expedition backed by citizens of Detroit, was in something of a hole but was summoning his final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland...
...Hangman for sitting, iron-jowled, on a high bench of justice as Lord Glenmalure; of how this man married his sweet daughter Connaught to John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping always in the quiet country among horses, dogs and simple folk; and of what came of it, including the talk that Jimmy the Hangman's house was haunted after...
...Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit...