Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to the cliffs 25 years ago. My father, Mr. Frank D. Shields, and four other business men of San Francisco controlled the production at that time and as children my brother and I visited the Kiln for our summer holidays. An album of interesting pictures, showing the little settlement and the lively trams swinging over the mountains, is among our family possessions and if you were to climb to the big house on the top of the hill, you will discover my mother's recordings of the inches we grew each year- still clearly notched on the side...
...work had "to be abandoned about 1910, as I remember, due to a heavy cloudburst, which swept the complete little settlement into the creek and left the place in ruins...
Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold...
Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from...
...Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost of making steel to a point where any settlement would seem sweet...