Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred miles of the most dangerous rapids in the United States-through the Grand and Marble Canyons of the Colorado-will be traversed between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 by a party of map makers and geologists sent out by the U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction of Col. C. H. Birdseye, a World War veteran, chief topographical engineer of the Survey. Their four boats are specially constructed with air chambers, and are manned by the most skillful boatmen of the region. The men are strapped in the cockpits, wearing life preservers continually. The mapping of the Colorado...
When Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was captured by the Chinese bandits she managed to hide her jewelry (valued at $50,000) in the ground. When released and returned to Peking, she drew from memory a rough map of the place. A search was organized and the jewels were finally discovered by " Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Company. He received "an extremely substantial reward...
...greatest star map in the world is nearing completion at the Paris Observatory, after 36 years of labor It records photographically 300,000,000 stars and other heavenly bodies visible through the most powerful telescopes. About 6,000 stars can be seen with the naked eye. With every new increase in the size of telescopes, new stars are revealed, and their number is apparently infinite. The map, with its accompanying catalogue, is the outcome of international coöperation between the astronomers of 18 nations...
...work will be mostly of practical nature but hour lectures will be held every morning in which the day's problems will be explained. The field work in the first half of the course will consist of plane and topographical surveying, levelling, determination of meridian and latitude, and map making, while in the last four weeks problems in railroad construction will be taken up involving preliminary surveys, final location, slope staking, and estimates of quantities and cost...
...great conflict. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, has signed articles to fight 15 rounds to decision with Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...