Word: monts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Touched was President Hoover by the case of Police Lieut. David T. McElliott of Great Falls, Mont. It was Officer McElliott's misfortune to be convicted last year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
...first time, the ascent of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Western Europe (15,780 feet high) will be filmed. This summer, H. B. Washburn '33, and W. C. Everett '33 will make the arduous ascent. The filming will include scenes in the valley as well as a complete narrative account of the climbing of the famous mountain...
Experimental work was carried on in 1918 by the Bureau of Mines at Granite Mountain Shaft, Butte, Mont., where 13 years ago 162 men lost their lives in a fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes...
Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...
Reliability. The 30 planes in the sixth annual National Air Tour finished half of their 4,848-mi. trip last week at Great Falls, Mont. There, canny U. S. Customs agents, aware that the last stopping place had been in Canada, aware of the lusty thirsts of flying men, swarmed over the planes. From Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, tour official who had proudly led the flyers into his native state, they took six bottles of liquor and $30 in fines. From the cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order...