Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coleman acquired a deposit in California's Death Valley. In 120° heat he began mining borax in the valley 280 ft. below sea level. To transport the ore over jagged peaks and through the desert to Mojave, Calif., he formed the famed 20-mule team (actually 18 mules and two horses), was soon hauling out 2,500,000 tons of ore annually...
...Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter...
From Aeronautical Wizard Igor Sikorsky came a wry glance into yesteryear and a full-faced peek into the future. Said he, at a Washington banquet: "The first instrument of transport was developed when man placed a load on his woman's back. Then came the pack mule. Now the day is at hand when a crane helicopter will be able to pick up a ready-made house, deliver it to its site while the owners are inside having dinner...
...Arabia, the President himself was winging southward to join Art and George at Thomasville. Stepping out of his plane into balmy weather ("My," commented Mamie Eisenhower, "this sun feels good"), Ike drove to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's 600-acre plantation, "Milestone." Next day he climbed into a mule-drawn hunting wagon and to the soothing clop-clop-clop of two white mules, drove to the dry brush where the quail were hiding. And there, within the hour, the President almost forgot the tensions of the world outside...
...Army also announced that it would muster out the famed 4th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack), which, with its 125 horses and mules, was created in 1907 for mountain and jungle fighting, saw action in World War II (Burma, Italy). Replacing the Army mule: the experimental 4th Airphibious Field Artillery Firing Unit-a helicopter group...