Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns...
...instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year, a gain of 500% over rock bottom 1932. Some pianomen thought this increase was traceable to more attractive "streamlined" cabinets, others to the general revival of installment selling. But all were sure that they would run out of materials before the year is up if the present buying wave continues...
...started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...
...tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires, the oilmen farmers are attacked by Red's gang on a rock-bluff. Aided by a carnival troupe complete with elephants, which has been summoned by Sally who knows its manager, Peter Cortlandt and his friends win their fight...
...through 1925), a star player since 1916, Hornsby has played on five major-league teams and managed four (St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns) in the past eleven years. Cardinals Owner Sam Breadon used to say that listening to him was like "having a rock crusher emptied over your head...