Word: logan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...female species, deadlier than the male, swam the English Channel three times in seven days. Britain burbled with delight over the prowess of its mermaids; U.S. papers printed smaller and smaller notices; even of the feat of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, (Nom de mer Mona McLennan) in bettering Gertrude Ederle's time. To Dr. Logan was paid the $5,000 prize offered by Lord Riddell of the News of the World to any British girl who beat the record. She had grooved the dark wet miles in 13 hours, 10 minutes; 81 minutes faster than Miss Ederle...
...Algeria, Alonzo W. Pond of the Logan Museum (Beloit College) found a prehistoric child's bones, beneath a layer of flint and bone implements. Mr. Pond was inclined to join the school of thought which designates Africa as the cradle of humanity...
...command of the 3,000 marines now stationed in Nicaragua (TiME, May 23) is Brigadier General Logan Feland. His state of mind last week was indicated by a radiogram which reached his wife at Atlantic City, following the successful action at Ocotal. She read: "All seems well today. Thank God for the power of aviation that saved our men. Love...
...Signed) LOGAN...
...invent some sort of rule to restrain the present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla., had just tapped an oil level new to Oklahoma. Theirs is the deepest paying well there, producing 3,600 barrels of crude oil daily.* The nearby Seminole area of Oklahoma with more than 550 wells last week established a new record for one day's output...