Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambulances brought doctors and rescue workers from a dozen towns. Priests gave absolution and surgeons operated in the middle of the streets. One woman was dug from a rock pile that had been a house. "There were eight of us, drinking coffee," said she, and died. Others wandered about all night, calling. That night villagers miles away could still see the benzol plant flaming like a candle to the dead...
...Tokyo that this treasure exists, but such secrets are always well kept. To this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers of the Imperial General Staff...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
...feet in three years and immediately was offered $75,000 a year to be president of the Rock Island. As president of the B. & O. he was getting $25,000. Hardheaded, he wanted the money. Personally ambitious and aggressive, he wanted to do things by himself...
...took the Rock Island job and thereby probably kept himself from becoming head of a great system long before this. Within nine months he had split with Rock Island's backers, but under his five-year contract he continued to draw his $75,000, largest in the U. S. He went to the Kansas City Southern, described at the time as "a right of way and two streaks of rust," and promptly put that firmly on its feet...