Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from an operating company to its present holding company status. He was one of the first oilmen to foresee the necessity of restricting the oil output and was a pioneer exponent of the present conservation program...
...with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer...
...cool edge to last week's breeze was a little rough on a pioneer and the Vagabond hopes soon to find some evidence in the blue prints of weather stripping so that future inhabitants can be entrenched tight against the winter's blast. With conditions as they are, however, this does not seem likely, and protection against the cold will probably be confined to the central heating plant...
...Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen for another print. For three years he too refused...