Word: surveyor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knocks?" cried the Abbey Surveyor from within...
...were entirely eclipsed last week by publication of a two-volume work called A Catalogue of the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle,† by 32-year-old Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Director of London's National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. The King's collection is far & away the biggest and finest collection of Leonardo drawings now known to man. In his first volume of notes, Cataloger Clark makes it tell much of great Leonardo, one of the brightest, blandest and most mysterious...
Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...
Same year Surveyor Hulbert sank his first shaft, last week's Saunders Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...