Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to compare thee to the mountain, but the summit of every mountain can be seen...
...ladies in official Washington none has had a more extraordinary career than greying, blue-eyed Josephine Roche. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (in charge of Public Health). In 1927, at 40, she inherited a sizable share of her union-hating father's Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., which dominated Colorado's northern coal fields. Josephine Roche turned the company into a laboratory for the social theories she had developed during 17 years she had spent in social work. She also ran it so efficiently that, in spite of high wages and furious competition from other Colorado mine owners...
Reason for Josephine Roche's "absence from the Treasury": J. Paul Peabody, one-time clerk, whom she raised to the presidency of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., died last summer and she had to go back to business...
Died. Mrs. Kathryn Lawes, 50, wife of Penologist Lewis E. Lawes; of shock, exposure and internal injuries, after a fall while walking on a hillside near Bear Mountain Bridge; in Ossining...
...east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands and barbecues, first by Indian runner, then in succession by pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping airplane into...