Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Santos went to their work and back to their homes last week in a thick and pungent fog. Economists did not mind the smell. In an effort to reduce Brazil's enormous stocks of coffee, a mountain of 530,000 bags of low grade coffee was piled up, soaked with oil and set alight. All day long the coffee volcano roared into the sky, darkened the heavens with the smell of a billion spoiled breakfasts...
...will go where Taiwan has already placed $14,000,000-to mountain-nestled Lake Jitsu-Getsu-Tan (Lake of the Moon and the Sun). There a large power plant is being built which will have a maximum capacity of 100,000-k.w. hours. Taiwan's output last year came to 155,000,000-k.w. hours...
...Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long legal service with the Union Pacific trained him for the presidency of the reorganized Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, represented the Western and Mountain-Pacific group of roads. Whitefoord R. Cole, president of Louisville & Nashville, represented the Southern roads. An experienced, aggressive trio, Presidents Pelley, Scandrett & Cole in five days prepared a 5,500-word petition which was as much an appeal for public support as it was a formal application...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will swing through the national parks for a holiday at his Sierra Nevada Mountain camp...