Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Elizabeth's crossing time of four days, 16 hours, 18 minutes, was unspectacular, but her champagne luxury was something to cable home about. Her passengers were amazed by what they could eat, drink and buy in the shops. In the mammoth dining saloon amidships or in the tonier Verandah Grill on the afterdeck, first-class passengers ate sirloin steaks, Timbale de Volaille Périgord, pineapple souffle, coupe Jacques...
...prehistoric mammoth was discovered in the ice of northern Siberia. Russian and German scientists hastened to study the body, then approximately 50,000 years old. Other frozen Pleistocene Age mammals had been found from time to time, but this one was so well preserved that half-chewed leaves and grasses still clung to its teeth. Its hide was covered with long, reddish-brown woolly hair. The hind legs measured nearly 50 inches from sole to knee, and weighed about 350 pounds each. The scientists had the "great satisfaction," one of them reported, of finding even the genitals "in the best...
...This frozen-mammoth report is one of the many curious items in Animal Tales. Young (35) British Naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson has gathered material from all over the world for his anthology-sober science as well as "impossible fantastic fiction." In an elaborate series of prefatory remarks, he tries to explain and analyze his selections. The best of them need no analysis; the worst are merely gushy pieces about friendly yaks and darling koala bears. Among the best selections...
...Lord Beaverbrook's mammoth Daily Express, the trial of handsome, lady-killing Neville Heath rambled through six extravagant columns. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail had elbow room, too; its portrait of the gallows-bound Heath was in the best Fleet Street tradition (he looked and posed as a gentleman, but after all, his handkerchief stuck just a little too far out of his pocket, and his R.A.F. necktie was always "a trifle too aggressively knotted...
...personal empire. In addition to running AVCO, he is a director in six other companies, has a chunk of stock in mammoth Standard Gas & Electric Co., of which he was once board chairman, and is a special partner in a brokerage house, Emanuel. Deetjen...