Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First sight to make the passengers crane their necks was the grey mass of the Federal Penitentiary, three miles east of their northeasterly course. Less than 15 min. later loomed a greater landmark- Stone Mountain, where an air beacon flashes above the monster unfinished carvings for the Confederacy memorial...
Across Georgia's boundary and through most of South Carolina the terrain is rolling pinewoods, fields of broomstraw, greywhite cotton acres ruled off with black furrows. Beyond Spartanburg, S. C. the passengers could see King's Mountain thrusting its razor back out of the foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay...
Died. Agnes Dillon Randolph, 55, great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, sister of Hollins Nicholas Randolph (president of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association), founder of tuberculosis service organizations in Virginia and Texas; in Richmond...
...ants as a disease prevention. One chief gave Explorer Holdridge some vegetables from his garden. He explained that the vegetables were good because recently he had cast out all evil spells from his garden by killing his brother-in-law, a voodoo priest. Explorer Holdridge also saw a new mountain range, two uncharted rivers, a waterfall 260 ft. high...
...only interest I have in the statement which is to be inscribed on the mountain," said he, "is that it shall be as purely as possible a digest of what the subjects mean and that it shall be in beautiful English.* Posterity will hold me responsible for it whether I wrote it or not, I want it right...