Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nation, famed of old as blanket-weavers, silversmiths. And to the east through New Mexico are scattered the adobe cities of the Pueblo peoples (best known settlements are the two "skyscrapers" at Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James...
...Greatest Insurgent of them all, the man whose shadow from the Capitol falls farthest across the land, is thickset, long-lipped, blue-eyed William Edgar Borah of Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening to other people...
...engineer and 13,000 Russians mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
...Rock Island Land. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. has abandoned its downtown station in Oklahoma City, is building a big new station with St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. The land was sold to the city...
Last week Constable Sam Bartell, onetime (1889) U. S. Deputy Marshal led a group of friends to the land and "squatted'' on it. His contention: Rock Island was given title to the land by the U. S. Government. It forfeited title by abandoning the land, leaving it open to settlers under an old act of Congress. Oklahoma City went ahead and took possession of the land, drove off the squatters...