Word: mule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this schooner, and Prime Minister Judd en trusted to him protests against the action of Captain Paulet, to be presented to the American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent and the American sought sleeping accommodations, but later on the American arose, and hiring every mule and burro available, left Acapulco, leaving no means of transportation for the English Agent. Crossing Mexico, a steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance of the Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral...
Chickasha, Okla., knew W. H. Draper as an eccentric homesteader with a mule called Jack. W. H. Draper was graduated from Harvard in 1896, got a job with the Calumet & Hecla Copper Co. Last week he died and willed everything he had- $2,000 and a 27-acre tract-to his good friend, Mule Jack...
Episcopal duties in Lexington do not consist merely of preaching in the great Cathedral on Church Street. The Bishop must visit the poor up in the hills. He must ride on senescent irresponsible trains. Sometimes he rides on a mule...
...Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material...
...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...