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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlanta, with more than 870 national corporations with branch plants, warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
...Colt, 45 six-shooter, is exactly the type carried by rangers forty years ago throughout the West. It is known to have been used in several memorable encounters with the Indian tribes who were still hostile at that time...
Through a recent request from the Museum of Stuttgart, Germany, asking for cooperation in locating several type fossils of the Miocene age., the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has just located the fossils, which have been lying in an obscure corner of the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, since they were overlooked when the rest of the Eser collection, which contained the types, was brought to the University ten years...
...Stuttgart museum wrote to the University because of a request it had received from the University of Paris, which is making a study of the Miocene fish, and wished to have the type fossils which Finanrath Eser of Stuttgart had collected near Wurtemberg, Germany...
...Eser fossils were acquired by the Boston Society of Natural. History in 1873, and subsequently presented to the University museum, the Stuttgart museum wrote to the University asking for either the loan of the fossils, or photographs. A search of the University museum failed to discover the particular type fossils requested, and it was only after a long search that the lost types were found in an obscure corner of the Boston Society museum...