Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest experiment-for it is still such-in rail transportation under gasoline power will be tried on the Rock Island, on whose rails Mack Truck will soon place the "Mack Rail Car." This new engine has resulted from three years' study of the problem; it is practically regular railway equipment, and can be coupled into two, three-or four-car trains with 90 horse power motors on each truck...
There they are crushed into tiny fragments, and separated from other rock on inclined vibrating tables.* Then they are used for polishing the glass that goes to make windshields and windows...
...Rapid City, S. D., Gutzon Borglum, seeking occupation, conferred with leading Dakotans on the advisability of their employing him to carve historic figures out of Needle Rock, a steeple of granite in the Black Hills. Several wealthy persons listened sympathetically to the plan. When asked to suggest what national heroes they thought would best become this lonely summit, they named Washington and Lincoln, two favorites with the public. Mr. Borglum began to make designs...
...Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin...
...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...