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...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...
...delegates got a good idea of how potentially explosive the price situation was. On a chart he showed that total U.S. production had risen sharply last year until about October. Then, as the U.S. neared the limit of present productive capacity, it reached a plateau which can slope upward only slowly in the future. But the amount of production going into armament had increased sharply since October, would increase even more in the future. Henceforth production heretofore taken by civilians would have to be diverted to defense even though civilian purchasing power continued to rise. Concluded Zelomek...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
...such a course for the U. S. He chose Aspen, Colo., in the heart of the Rockies 200 miles west of Denver, in the 1880s the "world's richest mining camp," now a shrunken village of 800 miners. Roch laid out the course on the precipitous north slope of Mt. Aspen before he returned home. Aspenites completed it according to his plan. From a height of 10,350 ft. above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins in the clear above timber line, winds through wooded...