Word: minturn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman...
...story and a poem respectively, redeem the sheets from the come-on-fellows-and-lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your notions of story writing include the theme of the college bounder whose incredible extravagance leads him to the purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which to satisfy his sybaritic lusts...
...Department of the Interior published a report by Geologists C. E. Dobbin, V. H. Barnett and W. T. Thom Jr. of the U. S. Geological Survey. They said that the 75-foot coal seams near Minturn, Wyo., are only part of huge system of seams embracing Campbell, Crook, Weston, Toniobrara and Converse Counties, which contain some 14 billion tons. Some 17.8 billion tons is the U. S. coal mining total to date...
...Gillette, Wyo., as at Minturn and elsewhere in the region, the coal deposits are on or near the earth's surface. A few country mines are operating. Ranchers have long scraped what they needed for household fires from outcroppings in bluffs and streambeds. Large-scale production can be accomplished by "stripping" the seams from above. Tunnelling will seldom be necessary...