Word: surveyors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew him 30 years ago. As a shaggy-haired lad of 7 he went among the miners passing his fur hat, singing In the Good Old Summer Time. As Bob Crawford grew up, he was more & more determined to make his way in the world. At 16, as a surveyor on the Alaska Railroad, he earned enough to get to Princeton where he paid his way by working in a Ford service station. At Princeton (Class of 1925) he made much of music, led the University orchestra, wrote for Triangle Club shows, became president of the Glee Club. After graduation...
...England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor George Washington in 1770, lay within the broad boundaries of the Old Dominion...
...temper of the country has quieted down, so has its hero-worship of the man in the White House. Surveys agreed that public enthusiasm for Franklin Roosevelt was cooler today than in the confused autumn of 1934. Dr. George Gallup, professional surveyor of public taste (who calls himself the "American Institute of Public Opinion"), recently published a graph of the President's popularity showing that it reached a new low just after Congress adjourned. Last week Frazier Hunt, correspondent of Newspaper Enterprise Association, after a cross-country political reconnoissance, came to a similar conclusion. The opposition, though still...
...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
Among the 623 Special Agents and Accountants now in the field there is an amazing diversity of occupational backgrounds. Sixty-three are experienced farmers, 17 are aviators, 17 newshawks, one a baker, seven professional baseball players, one a surveyor, one an oil gauger, 37 with banking experience. Two were radio announcers. ("That's the pair they ought to shoot," jests Director Hoover...