Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this cañon a dozen years ago-the kilns and a score of houses are deserted and overgrown with poison oak and empty save for bats and snakes and a few broken tables...
...Sawdust Trail. Only one other prominent New Deal politician has a record that in one respect can compare with that of Governor Earle: he and Franklin Roosevelt were born with silver spoons in their mouths and brought up in the stodgiest of rich, conservative societies, Roosevelt among the squires of Dutchess County, Earle on Philadelphia's "Main Line,"* among Pews, Biddies, Cadwaladers, Morrises and other families found in the Social Register and the upper brackets of the income...
...ponies and show dogs, dinner parties and fine wines. He had inherited a sugar fortune and married Huberta Potter, a Kentucky belle. Like Saint Paul crossing the plain of Damascus, George Earle in 1932, crossing the valley of Depression, suddenly saw a great light. He promptly hit the sawdust trail to political redemption...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...Boeing laden with instruments and experts which flew almost daily over the mountainous Northwest-an ideal snow-static laboratory. Snow static was supposed to be caused by impact on the antenna of droplets containing tiny electric charges. United last week announced that it is caused by discharge from trailing edges of electricity gathered while flying through heavily charged clouds. When sufficiently severe, snow static affected the shielded loop, heretofore the best-known remedy (TIME, Jan. 25), as much as any antenna. The remedy worked out by United is to trail from the tail 50-, ft. of insulated wire, an electric...