Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Smoky National Park, the only one like it east of Yellowstone, will be approached from Knoxville or Asheville. It will be about 50 by 25 miles in area. Without spoiling the landscape, the U. S. will build trunk roads and trails, camp shelters, telephone lines. Hunting will be prohibited, but 400 miles of trout-filled streams will be open to visiting fishermen...
...first traces of lost Explorer Fawcett they found among the Anauqua Indians. One of the chief's children was wearing a small brass ornament, the nameplate of Fawcett's London outfitters. In the chief's house was an English metal trunk. Chief Aloique admitted having seen Fawcett and guided him; said he had been killed by the neighboring Suya Indians. When Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began...
...also proposed that a narrow gauge railway be built over the area following the routes of the principal trunk lines equipped with miniature trains large enough to carry visitors, with stations along the route. The round trip in which the entire country could be seen would take about twenty minutes, covering about one and a half to two miles of riding, which would be a bit faster than walking, according to the proposal...