Word: minnewaska
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...shores of Minnesota's Lake Minnewaska is a little town called Glenwood, which is 26 miles west of Sauk Center, birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. Glenwood is also near Cottonwood, birthplace of the first U. S. oil & gas cooperative. Because Cottonwood could not accommodate a convention which observed the 15th anniversary of the founding of its filling station, because Minnesota is the most co-operative State in the Union and because International Co-Operative Day falls on the first Saturday in July, Glenwood played host last week to nearly all the leading cooperators...
...were at the second best hotel, for almost by definition cooperators are not affluent. Since Co-operation is a Cause as well as a system of economics, the delegates did not go in for the usual convention revelry of profit-making businessmen. They swam with their ladies in Lake Minnewaska. They celebrated at Glenwood Park. They inspected the only co-operative in Glenwood, a filling station. They stayed away from the slot-machines in the hotel bar, one cooperator crisply observing: "Slot-machines are distinctly not co-operative." They were there to talk the theory & practice of cooperation, and that...
...purchase marked the end of I. M. M.'s foreign-flag shipping. Year ago I. M. M. severed its connection with White Star Line, later sold its Red Star liners Minnetonka and Minnewaska for junk (TIME, Nov. 26). Last month I. M. M. transferred the Red Star liner Belgenland from British to U. S. registry, renamed her Columbia, put her in Panama Pacific Line's New York-Havana cruise service as the biggest (27,000 tons) U. S. ship in active service...
...famed old line, their passing meant to many an ocean traveler something more than the end of 44,000 tons of shipping and two proud names. It meant the last act in the great careers of the two old sea-dogs who had been their masters-the Minnewaska's Captain Frank H. Claret and the Minnetonka's Captain Thomas F. ("Giggles") Gates. To each of these, in their time, had come stirring moments in maritime history...
...long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine in Mudro Bay. For that her master was decorated with the order of Commander of the British Empire by King George himself...