Word: piney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cool on the banks of piney Lake Mendota rests the quiet city of Madison, centre of a rich dairy and farming area, home of Wisconsin's State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust...
Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...
...father, founder of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, was official photographer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show of 1913 and in the excitement married a big, handsome Gerbookseller. While his 20-year...
...through the roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...