Word: monte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nick Mamer was flying east in one of Northwest's brand-new Lockheed 143, twin-motored monoplanes whose 225 m. p. h. cruising speed makes them the fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
Other items featured in the exhibit are a copy of "Mont Blanc in the Vale of Chamouny" in the poets own handwriting, and Coleridge's own copy of the "Ancient Mariner," with marginal notes written...
...Cabinet Ministers and legislators marked for arrest at the outbreak of the rising, a file detailing meaus of seizing garages and busses belonging to the Paris street-bus system and municipal garbage trucks, to be converted into offensive weapons, plans to seize the supply of arms stored at the Mont Valérien fortress, and so forth...
...latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle...