Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
Nitrates. Ten thousand square miles of sodium nitrate, important fertilizer, have been discovered in southwest Africa on both sides of the Elephant and Nosob Rivers. Said Professor Smeath Thomas of Cape Town University who made the report: "There is a strong resemblance to the conditions prevalent in Chile. . . . Profits should...
Morgan Family. When Commonwealth & Southern Corp. was organized recently by Bonbright & Co. with 60 million shares capitalization and Morgan backing, observers saw it as a sister to potent United Corp. which would extend the Morgan utility sway south, southwest, inland to the Great Lakes. Last week their beliefs were justified...
...Southwest Air Fast Express Tulsa, Okla...
These systems go through the Southwest where year-round transportation can be maintained easily. Elsewhere in the country the hurried traveler can splice his own air-&-rail way by hopping from iron horses to "tin geese" (see TIME...