Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illicit pipelines which secretly carried oil from shut-in wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become increasingly difficult and the State's commissioners were reported almost ready to give up. Production in the East Texas field showed a tendency to mount despite the railroad commission's fixing a maximum "allowable"' for every well. Oilmen saw East Texas as their danger spot...
Most big general magazines published under the Maple Leaf are close family affairs. No exception is National Home Monthly. It was founded by an old newspaperman of Mount Forest, Ont. named Henry H. S. Stovel. In 1867 he began a weekly newspaper called The Confederate, the name springing not from the recently concluded U. S. Civil War but from Canada's provincial confederation which occurred that year. Eighteen years later Publisher Stovel moved with his four sons, all printers, to Winnipeg. Fourteen years later Western Home Monthly came to life. Father Stovel and sons Harry, John and Augustus died...
Harvard's new observatory will contain a 61-in. telescope, as will the University of Toronto's new Dunlap Observatory. For a half dozen years those will rank as the world's fourth largest instruments, after Carnegie Institution's 100-in. telescope at Mount Wilson, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's 72-in. at Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake...
Other New Observatories. One old and one new reason limited Harvard's tenure of fourth-biggest-telescope position. The old reason is California Institute of Technology's intention of building a 200- in. telescope in California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait...
Miss Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...