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...rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his Gannochy Moor for guests. Active U. S. shooters included William Woodward, who leased one of the best moors at Clova, and Edmund P. Rogers, who paid $15,000 for the season rights to the moors of both Stobo Castle and Leithen Castle...
Since it is hard to shoot grouse without encroaching on one of the 800 private highland moors, renting them to individuals and syndicates is a big business. Rent is usually computed on the estimated yield at $5 a brace. A moor will cost from $1,000 to $35,000 for the six-week season...
...Professional Golfer Henry Cotton : the $5,000 Silver King Tournament: with a 72-hole score of 279, same as the number of his clubhouse locker; at Moor Park, England...
...even when Max Miller "covered the waterfront" for the Sun in pre-Depression years were 22 commercial ships able to moor in San Diego at one time. The resultant traffic congestion would be unthinkable...
Shrinking Drinks. To demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging...