Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington none has had a more extraordinary career than greying, blue-eyed Josephine Roche. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (in charge of Public Health). In 1927, at 40, she inherited a sizable share of her union-hating father's Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., which dominated Colorado's northern coal fields. Josephine Roche turned the company into a laboratory for the social theories she had developed during 17 years she had spent in social work. She also ran it so efficiently that, in spite of high wages and furious competition from other Colorado mine owners who distrusted her methods...
...seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
...work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
...member of the expedition spent a month making a survey of wild life in Northern Sumatra with special reference to the orange utan and the National Park established for its preservation by the Netherlands Indian Government...
General zoological collections have been procured for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from the mountain forests of Northern Siam and British North Borneo. Work on the highland and lowland forests of primate collections and the detailed study and correlation of information procured in the field remain to be done...