Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern White Ski Slope--four inches of new powder snow with one inch base. Temperature...
Hordes of beavers have lived in the northern half of North America during the 25,000 years since the glaciers receded. As beavers still do, they built dams. When one pond filled up they went a little farther upstream and built another. When the whole valley was a series of muddy terraces the beavers went off to another stream. Then the stream broke through the dams one by one and carried a huge load of silt down to the bottom of the valley, forming an alluvial plain...
Charles Holmes Herty's 1933 proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South...
...suggest that the surly manner in which you review Semmes of the Alabama, by W. Adolphe Roberts, is in itself no mean tribute to the subject of the book, and one which gains weight by its very belatedness? . . . The fact that his name rankles in Northern minds 75 years after the event, is sufficient evidence of his efficiency in carrying out his duty...
...naval and its foreign policy the Confederacy did not measure up to the exploits of its army, that England was the chief beneficiary of Semmes's exploits. For the assistance given the Confederacy by British shipping interests, as well as for a definitive criticism of Confederate and Northern policy, let Readers Semmes, Semmes, et al. consult King Cotton Diplomacy by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Southern-born Professor of history at Vanderbilt University...