Word: sawtooth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's borders, for example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected of sending off streams of dashes to hedge off U. S. short-wave radio transmissions to Italy. Each such transmitter, radio engineers know, could be operated to transmit a "sawtooth" signal which could affect all broadcasting on a band 300 kilocycles wide (as much air space as 30 U. S. stations occupy...
...plain that his small-town dwellers are as mixed up as any, that legends of uninhibited frontiers are just legends. One character among his many neurotics points the strait way to salvation. This is Ogden Greb, a former colleague of Psychologist Jim Jones. He goes out to the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho after Jerry turns him down. There he meets an uninhibited girl with a simple heart and a wise head. After an idyllic summer and winter with her (not as convincingly described as the mountain scenery) Greb sheds his introspections...
What had roused the warden were reports sent down from central Idaho's wild Salmon River and Sawtooth Mountain country. One hunter wrote that he had found a dozen sets of lambs' feet in one golden eagle's nest, three sets of goats' feet in another, seen eagles kill a 2-year- old mule deer. For years Idaho has paid a $1 bounty on golden eagles. Now Warden Eckert ordered his predator exterminators to begin a systematic campaign against them...
...Alps, preferably St. Moritz. Last week, the tiny tank town of Ketchum, Idaho (pop. 220) was ready to set itself up as famed St. Moritz's U. S. rival. Just outside Ketchum, 6,000 ft. above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort of the Western Hemisphere, will this week open to a covey of 250 skiers and celebrities topped by Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
Ketchum is a tank town on a branch line of Union Pacific R. R. Its new importance springs from the fact that it lies a mile above sea level in snowy Sun Valley at the heart of the Sawtooth Mountains. For in Sun Valley, U. P.'s Chairman William Averell Harriman is developing a winter resort with heavy emphasis on skiing. He envisions it as a St. Moritz...