Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although lecturers were having some difficulty making themselves heard, especially in the larger courses, Stillman officials said last night that there was no threat of an epidemic. "There is no more than the normal autumn incidence of colds here now," Rock said...
...Atlanta police, responding to pained protests, ordered a diaper laundry, to silence the musical horns on its trucks. The horns played Rock-a-bye Baby...
...Continent Lost. The Atlantis (jointly sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Columbia University and the National Geographic Society) was equipped with sonic depth-finders, seismographs and other up-to-date gadgets of sea-bottom exploration. Most promising work was done by dredges, which brought up samples of rock. The rocks have not yet been studied, but Columbia's Professor Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, hopes that they will tell much about the geological origin of the underwater range...
Premium Iron was Cyrus Eaton under another name; he owned 74.4% of it, and his good friend, Otis & Co.'s President William Raymond Daley, owned the rest. The contract gave Premium 2% on all Steep Rock sales. Salesman Eaton then got the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., on whose board he sits, to agree to buy all the ore that Steep Rock could produce and Premium Iron could sell...
With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...