Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 and benches. (A considerable enterprise-over 300 men were employed there...
...years she has been going through the pockets of the Treasury for $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year in mail subsidies and steadily getting more down at the heel. Today 90% of U. S. merchant ships are over 15 years old and few are able to travel as much as 12 knots. Aside from oil tankers not one seagoing merchant vessel was built in the U. S. last year, and no general cargo type ship in 15 years...
...happens that the only Japanese general of prominence who has been permitted to travel in the Soviet Union for some time is Major General Masaharu...
...would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working as a carpenter's assistant in Hollywood to support the young wife and son, Buddy, who now travel with him to all tournaments. A year ago he borrowed enough money from his employer to enter the Western Open. He won it with a record-breaking last round of 64. According to the standards of professional golf, he has been financially successful ever since. Last winter his average score...
...cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three newsreels manufactured and released by Eugene...