Word: monts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having trudged 65,000 miles carrying 283 tons of mail since 1918, Anna McDonald, 45, of Anaconda, Mont., was last week transferred from mail-carrier to a clerical job by the Post Office Department. Anaconda hailed the retirement of "the last woman city mail carrier in the United States...
...Passing through Butte, Mont. on her way home to Seattle from Brother John's wedding, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger said: "I don't think father will run for another term. It's a wearisome grind, campaigning...
Born in 1809, Fanny Kemble was the last of the celebrated, exceedingly proud, theatrical "Kemble dynasty," the most famous of whom was Mrs. Siddons. The proudest, John Philip, whom Byron called "supernatural," sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy...
Fortnight ago, the price of domestic copper took another drop, from 10? to 9? a pound. Last week, Mountain Con, one of the two U. S. air-conditioned copper mines, and the Belmont, both at Butte, Mont., were shut down by Anaconda Copper Mining Co. To Anaconda, world's largest producer of copper, the domestic price cut symbolized U. S. Depression. It also marked another downswing in another copper cycle...
Prime fact about the used-car business is that a used car is rarely sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...