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Long Mr. James's pet road (he also has large holdings of Great Northern, Southern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy), Western Pacific has 1,207 miles of road, a main line running from Oakland Mole, Calif. to Salt Lake City and from Keddie to Bieber, Calif., where it connects with the Great Northern And Western Pacific's holding company, Western Pacific R. R. Corp., has a half interest in Denver & Rio Grande Western. It thus forms a link in a direct route from St. Louis to the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Realistic Relation | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Disabled, the José Luis Diez crept back to Gibraltar, and was beached in shallow water behind the Mole. That afternoon the British destroyer Vanoc gave Rightist and Leftist dead a sea burial. For the superior Rightist Navy the battle was partial revenge for the sinking a year ago of its battleship España, the torpedoing last winter of its cruiser Baleares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Naval Revenge | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Subway Art | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...abouts be given to the police, college authorities, or Attorney Julius H. Bregman, Commander Hotel, Cambridge. Gould is five feet ten and a half inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has medium brown hair brushed straight back, gray eyes, a very light complexion, a prominent nose, and a brown mole on his right cheek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Vanishes in New Disappearance Case; Witness Claims He Saw Burgess Drown in Charles | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

Zoologically, the duckbill is most remarkable as a link between species. It is a mammal and suckles its young-from secreting pores, not teats. But as do birds, it lays eggs. Like fish and turtle, it feeds on water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Duckbill Robe | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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