Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Rock Mineral Springs Co. ("White Rock" water, gingerale, root beer, sarsaparilla, also "Still Rock" and "Kentucky Nip"): $1,229,000 as against...
Vagaries of rumor aside, there are three railroads which could make good use of the Denver & Salt Lake and its tunnel: 1) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 2) Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 3) Denver & Rio Grande Western. The Rock Island and the Burlington, with lines from Chicago out to Denver, would both like to strengthen their transcontinental connections at their western ends by acquiring the Moffat tunnel. The Denver & Rio Grande Western is the most directly interested in the tunnel. Since it runs from Denver to Salt Lake City, the 175-mile saving would be made on its line. At present...
...Laurence McKinley Gould was back, hairy and dirty, from his 1,500-mi. geological trip to the Queen Maude Range. The Byrd ships, City of New York and Eleanor Boiling, were on the way from Dunedin, N. Z., to pick up the 42 men of his party, their records, rock specimens and equipment. The men were fretting for a change of society. Several were...
...service and emergency relief in 1930, and $50,000 for the encouragement, maintenance and relief of the Lutheran church in Russia and to help struggling Lutheran churches in smaller European countries. The $50,000 must also support European seminarians and foreign missionary emergency work. Dr. Gustaf Albert Brandelle of Rock Island, Ill., was re-elected President of the council for the coming year...
Water filtering through overlaid rocks for perhaps 60 million years made Carlsbad Cave by dissolving original beds of rock salt, limestone, gypsum. In the great rooms, dripping water carrying, dissolved minerals has formed great stalagmites and stalactites. In the "King's Room" stalactites hang like the iridescent folds, pleats and ruffles of a canopy. The monstrosity of Carlsbad Cave, however, is the "Big Room," half a mile long, 400 ft. wide, 348 ft. high. Sixteen airships the size of the Los Angeles could be housed therein...