Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrilling, not the rock-sitting variety), motorcycle cops, a "Miss Arizona Aviation," parties, and all the familiar Hollywood accessories. During the actual demonstration Leonard was not surprised to find himself seated next to Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper, who, he reports, "didn't turn a hair during all this mountain-leaping...
...Japan, an Army C-54 rammed into a mountain: 40 killed. In Iceland, a U.S.-made DC-3, operated by Icelandic Airways, crashed into a mountain peak: 25 killed. The crashes were scarcely noticed, because disaster had also struck resoundingly at home...
...speleological depth record passed last week from Italy to France. Speleologist (cave explorer) Pierre Chevalier, a chemical engineer above ground, led an expedition into a hole in the limestone body of the Dent de Crolles, a 6,765-ft. mountain in the western Alps. Eleven hours later the party emerged from the other side of the mountain and announced that they had worked their way 658 meters (2,158 ft.) below their starting point. The previous record, near Verona, Italy: 637 meters...
Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...
...biggest check, for about $44,000, went to the U.M.W.'s company, Lewmurken,* Inc., which once tried to save Rocky Mountain Fuel by lending President Roche $709,693. It had good reason to keep the company going. Miss Roche, a militant liberal, had taken over the presidency two years after the death of her union-hating father, who had joined other Colorado mining companies in smashing the U.M.W. in the ill-famed Ludlow riots...