Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest for janitors, even on Sunday. Through the marble halls of Senate and House office buildings they pushed crates of furniture and filing cabinets. Painters slapped on new paint. Scrub women wore out their knees. There was a minor tempest in the office of Senator John Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary...
Because it is a low-lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still...
...years ago the late Huey Pierce Long forced out President Thomas W. Atkinson of the University of Louisiana for blatantly political reasons. Last week young Progressive Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin appeared to be setting out to do a similar thing...
...Class I motorboat, has to carry red. white and green running lights, a mast, an anchor, bowsprit (which folds), life preservers, two sets of government pilot rules. Speed at sea is six knots, on dry land 35 m.p.h., on marsh 12 m.p.h. Since landmarks are scarce in Louisiana marshes and the grass often grows twelve feet tall, all steering is done by compass...
Among Mayflower's "hazardous ventures" was to put up $300,000 to further the seismic explorations of F. Julius Fohs, an oil geologist. Eventually Geologist Fohs discovered the English Bayou Oil Pool in Louisiana and Mayflower stock-holders received stock in Fohs Oil Co. now worth $2,500,000. Another venture was a $4,000,000 investment in Rhodesian copper properties, a commitment which was long thought to have been fabulously profitable. Actually, Mayflower lost...