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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Batopilas, Mexico, lies on a narrow shelf of land in a narrow valley in western Chihuahua, 350 miles south of El Paso, 300 miles north of Mazatlán. There, in the summer of 1880, five-year-old Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...
...river would remain feeble simply because the Army was loath to support it. Japanese Army commanders have no desire to shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
...instruments, petroleum geologists have found indications that oil formations may lie as deep as 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface. Until the visible supply of oil begins seriously to dwindle, probably no one will try to drill five miles. Meanwhile, in California's San Joaquin Valley, Continental Oil Co. has bored to 15,004 ft.-nearly three miles. This well, prosaically designated as K.C.L. A2, is the deepest hole ever made in the Earth. Having brought up oil from 13,100 ft., it is also the deepest producer...
...Virginia gentleman, George Washington, with large landed interests on both sides of the Alleghenies, began urging the construction of a canal to link the Atlantic seaboard with the trading centres of the Ohio valley. Though the need for trade routes was obvious, engineers sneered at such an undertaking, and the plan was forgotten. Half a century later, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. was founded, and in 1850 an $11,500,000, 184-mile canal between Georgetown, D. C. and Cumberland, Md. was opened. For 73 years hundreds of coal barges plied between the mouth of the Potomac and mining towns...
...story centres on the relation between whites and natives. In an isolated valley in Tahiti, 16 years before the story opens, a young English widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep...