Word: montes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...
Just before going on his holiday he had added to his "Hale's Tours" feature a moving picture he had seen in Pittsburgh, The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor...
...have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin (35,000 h. p.); Snoqualmie Falls, Wash. (20,000 h. p.). Some famed undeveloped U. S. waterfalls...
Lower Yellowstone (Mont...
...reel will also be shown of a tour on skils of Mont Rosa, the highest mount in Switzerland. The performance takes place in the Living Room of the Union on Sunday night and will begin at 7.30 o'clock. It is under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Union and is open to all members of both organizations...