Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much of the beef, more of the corn and wheat, and 40% of the oil in the U. S., are produced within a day's journey of the Kaw-Missouri confluence. The geographical centre of the U. S. is only 190 miles away near the centre of the northern Kansas boundary. The centre of U. S. population is a good 400 miles away, near Whitehall, Ind. But "an ideal spot," say Kansas Citizens, "to hold conventions concerning all the people...
Then Joel 0. Cheek did a very bold thing for a merchant. He started a national advertising campaign before he could supply the goods he advertised. But he created an insistent demand, and by the time his salesmen got to northern, midwestern, southwestern, northwestern and Pacific Coast jobbers they met very little sales-resistance...
Wheat, No. 1 Dark Northern Spring, Minneapolis...
...point of his intelligence into Gobi's secretive sand. Through the desert he trekked southward accompanied by obscure missionaries. When the sands of the desert grew cold in the mountain passes of Thibet, his feet chilled and hardened. Feet still half-frozen when he arrived at Leh, in northern India, he announced happily to the world that the scientific purpose of his wanderings (not stated) had been accomplished. He is Dr. Wilhelm Filchner...
...Meanwhile the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, headed by intrepid Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is inching its way across the northern sands. Geologists, paleontologists, topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest...