Word: novae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Nova Scotian, now of Cleveland, worked last week on the $80,000,000 merger of the Central Steel Co. of Massillon, Ohio, and the United Alloy Steel Corp. of Canton, Ohio. Their combined ingot capacity will Approximate 1,400,000 yearly. They will be the sixth largest steel corporation in the U. S., the very largest specializing in alloy steels...
...settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...
...Paul Davidovich will speak on "The Spectrum of Nova Pictoris" and Dr. William F. Luyten on "Some Applications of Statistics to Astronomy" tomorrow afternoon in the Harvard College Observatory at 4.30 o'clock...
...boat which will carry the expedition north into the ice-fields will be called the "Chance." She is now being built in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia, by William McKaye, a direct descendant of the Donald McKaye who made Boston famous with his clipper-ships. The "Chance" will be 75 feet long, and will have a displacement of 40 tons. Iselin designed her himself. She will be a schooner with a 40 horse power Lathrop engine to be used in case of calm in the fjords, and for running the winch to which will be attached 400 fathoms of gear. This...