Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From time to time a rock crashed through a window of the Chronicle's office. Bomb threats directed at "the capitalistic sheet'' grew dire. Employes were threatened by telephone at home. But unarmed and unguarded. Chronicle reporters went about their business. Chronicle circulation huskies ran the daily gauntlet of labor hoodlums...
...William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble Co. of Tate, Jones Bros. Co. of Boston, Smith Granite Co. of Westerly, R. I. who supplied the pink-white granite for Calvin Coolidge...
Principal diversion at Saratoga, after each day's races, is gambling in roadhouses like the Brook Club and the Piping Rock. Last week gambling-room proprietors expected to be allowed to run their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest...
...world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible access from East Rongbuk Glacier...
...attorney held the first directors meeting of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Since then they have added 9,000 persons to the TVA payroll, begun the construction of two great dams which together will cost $72,000,000, ordered surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp...