Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French authorities and by natives, have invariably proved productive. Now, marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa is underlain by a subterranean sea, 300 feet beneath the surface, connected by passageways with bodies of water beyond Suez...
...afternoon the interest of track enthusiasts throughout the country will be centered in Philadelphia. Picked athletes from preparatory school and college track teams from the East, the West, Canada, and England will open the spring track season in the 93 events which are listed in the program of the mammoth track meet at Franklin Field...
Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without...
April 7-12, 1922, Secretary Fall leased Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome) to Harry Ford Sinclair, who turned it over to the Mammoth Oil Co. in exchange for $106,000,000 of stock...
When the Equitable Building on lower Broadway was finished, New Yorkers felt that the climax of big buildings had been reached. But now the Parlex Holding Corporation proposes to outdo it with a mammoth structure at Fourth Avenue and 33rd Street. An entire block, 425 x 197 feet, will be occupied, the new structure when finished will contain 1,458,170 square feet of rental area-about a quarter of a million more than the Equitable Building-and will have 31 stories. The total cost is estimated at between $18,000,000 and $20,000,000. Construction will start this...