Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list" book, "we will buy this space for him to say so next Monday...
After wartime service in Africa, ex-Lieut. Colonel Lansdell K. Christie heard about Liberia's "Devil Mountain," a rich lode of iron ore in the Bomi Hills. Business-wise Christie, who had made a small fortune operating a barge line in New York, went back to Liberia after he was demobilized. He wangled a concession from the Liberian government to mine the mountain area, where ore assayed 68% iron (average in the Mesabi Range...
Christie has already spent $1,500,000 on his project, $300,000 of it building a road from Monrovia to the mountain 45 miles away. He expects to spend a total of $8,000,000 building a railroad to the mine and getting the mine in operation. Just how much ore is in the mountain has not been determined. But Christie and Republic estimate it upwards of 30 million tons, enough to make the deal highly profitable for both of them, as well as for Liberia...
Henry Bradford Washburn '33, veteran explorer and mountain climber, will show his technicolor film. "The Conquest of Mount McKinley" at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the Geographical Building at 8 p.m. tonight. The technical points of the climb will be featured...
Masson's studio window commands a view of Ste.-Victoire, the mountain, which Masson, like Cézanne* before him, has pictured again & again in all weathers. Compared with Cézanne's faultlessly constructed landscapes, Masson's were explosive in composition. Cézanne's seemed to have the range of a 75, Masson's that of a cap-pistol-but they popped with the vivid brushwork that had always been his trademark...