Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this...
...following men survived Saturday's cut: Adams, Adlis, Alschuler, Amazeen, J. B. Ayer, R. M. Ayer, Bartol, Beveridge, Burrage, Cabot, Coburn, Cole, Currier, Dunn, Dwinell, Elwell, Fallon, Feins, Fincke, Foshay, Frothingham, Gilmor, Ginman, Gleason, Greene, Heath, Hoguet, Johnson, Lane, Langley, Leatherbee, Lewis, Lupien, Martin, Pell, Scott, Taylor, G. Q. Thorndike, J. B. Thorndike, Warner, Watt, Webster, Weeks, Wenner, Winston, Wolcott, Worthen...
...glove is cast. The words yesterday of F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, that the prohibition issue is "more clearly drawn than at anytime since the coming of prohibition" is steadily growing more apparent to the American citizenry. After ten years of a notable experiment in which one thousand lives, millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come...
...Arbitral Board was to consist of three, and Lena chose as her personal champion a man in whom she knew all England (and particularly "The City") would have confidence, Rt. Hon. Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, P. C., onetime Solicitor General of Great Britain. In due course last Spring arbitral Chairman Stutzer summoned his Board to meet in Berlin. All seemed to be going swimmingly when...
...Vandalia, Ohio, three Ohio men and a Texas boy tied ahead of 962 other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they...