Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich Cape Town, South Africa, has a chest for the entire Cape Peninsula. Mrs. B. Trevelyan, who struggles alone as general secretary of the South African movement in all its branches, rejoiced that despite great difficulties, her group collected £9,500 (some $46,000). The Cape Town city council permitted other organizations to make street campaigns simultaneously. Lamented Mrs. Trevelyan: "The public still have a very hazy idea of what a real community chest can be ... [only] a few staunch men have supported...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
...hundred miles down the delta from New Orleans, Artist Brown discovered Boothville, La., on a peninsula 30 mi. long inhabited exclusively by leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each year. His girl there was a beautiful redhead who was supposed to have descended from pirate stock. She eloped with a butcher...
...oldest son. Since 1897 Dow Chemical has prospered phenomenally, made for itself a reputation unique in its industry. In the late 1880's Dr. Dow was a senior at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. He learned that the east central part of Michigan's lower peninsula is underlaid with great veins of brine and that salt from this brine was a failure because of impurities. He had the brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical...
Finland, a country some 30,000 sq. mi. larger than Italy, stretches north from Leningrad to the Arctic Ocean, a sort of buffer between Soviet Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is chiefly known to the U. S. as one of the only three governments in the world* which maintain absolute Prohibition of liquor, and as the country whence come great endurance runners (Paavo Nurmi, Willie Ritola et al.) and house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid. Correspondents have described it as a country riddled with lakes, bootleggers and Bolshevik propagandists. Official Finland, puny before...