Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great lines of migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat...
...West Africa, would benefit greatly by American intervention, according to Dr. Richard P. Strong of the Harvard Medical School, who headed the Harvard African Expedition of 1926-27. In his account of the social conditions of the country, recently published by the University Press, Dr. Strong compares Liberia with Sierra Leone, which like Liberia was settled with the idea of founding a home for freed slaves. He declares that although the populations of the two countries are almost the same, Sierra Leone has over four times the amount of trade and revenue, and only one sixth the public debt...
...Rising Sierra. Study of the records of eleven seismograph stations taken during an earthquake last Thanksgiving day in Nevada and California indicated that the Sierra region is rising, said Professor Perry Byerly, seismologist of the University of California. A comparison with recent material on Pacific Ocean disturbances showed a heavier granite formation in the Pacific region, indicated that the ocean bed is crowding against the lighter Sierra region, is shoving the mountains higher...
...choicest Alps in the country, scattered from the coast range to the White Mountains. ... I started in California and intended to sneak all the best peaks before the trade got wind of my intentions, but before I had cleaned up the coast range the news was out. In the Sierra Nevadas the prices jumped from $50 a peak to $1,000 and I had to play one mountain against another to get them for anything like a reasonable figure...