Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate till 20 years after Gore had first arrived there. By his law practice and shrewd investments he had built himself an independent fortune. One of his shrewd investments was Medicine Park, created when he decided that Oklahoma needed a summer resort. He began in 1910 to build log cabins, fish ponds, and other attractions on certain land he owned. He lived there in the Park Lodge till he built himself a house (out of boulders) across from his swimming pool. The War boosted Medicine Park which was the nearest amusement place to the training camp at Fort Sill...
Londoners who viewed Photographer Irvine's cinema found the picture too indistinct to be convincing. Some were sure they were looking at nothing more than a large gnarled log floating on the lake. On a plaster cast of Hunter Wetherell's footprint the Natural History Museum in London reported: "We are unable to find any significant difference between these impressions and those made by a hippopotamus...
...hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...
...Observant newsreaders were astounded by a story that the Boston Traveler, having sent a wireless message to Mrs. Lindbergh requesting an interview in flight, received the reply: "Wait a minute, I'll ask Lindy. . . . Anne." According to Pan American's log of Operator Lindbergh's messages she did not use her husband's detested nickname but replied merely: "Sorry. . . . Too busy. . . KHCAL...
...subject to government regulation, we shall find that no adequate technique has yet been developed for answering questions which regulation of this sort will have to answer, namely: What is the proper output? What is the proper price Also, government regulation will father the exercise of political influence, log rolling, and intrigue; all in the attempts to get monopolistic prices...