Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commencement exercises, the graduating class-13 hill children in grey caps & gowns-were waiting for him on the Community Building stage decked with mountain laurel. Their parents and friends clustered around as Franklin Roosevelt greeted them and, over their heads, addressed all school graduating classes, all the People...
...Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...
Fortnight ago, the price of domestic copper took another drop, from 10? to 9? a pound. Last week, Mountain Con, one of the two U. S. air-conditioned copper mines, and the Belmont, both at Butte, Mont., were shut down by Anaconda Copper Mining Co. To Anaconda, world's largest producer of copper, the domestic price cut symbolized U. S. Depression. It also marked another downswing in another copper cycle...
VALDEZ, Alaska--Bradford Washburn, Harvard Geographer and leader of the University's Alaskan expedition, reported today that all equipment had reached the first base camp on the Natuanuska Glacier near here. The group will survey the unmapped Chugach Mountain Range...
...party intends to climb Mt. St. Agnes, 15 miles from the base camp and the highest mountain in the un-charted area...