Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage to California the animals were kept packed in ice. All their hair dropped off, occasionally one fainted, had to be revived with cold compresses. In Los Angeles, Naturalist Chapman put them into a large screened building divided into pens running partly underground. Now, though Naturalist Chapman is dead, there are well over 1,000 healthy chinchillas on Chapman Chinchillas Inc.'s farm. One pair is capable of producing 126 babies in six years. From the Chapman chinchillas, no other chinchilla farms have been started in the U. S. Prime pelts will...
King Solomon's Mines is as rich in scenery as it is in make-believe. The principals are trapped in a sandstorm, in a burning thatched village, in a gurgling underground crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water...
...Davison Rockefeller's associates. Mr. Andrews' coal pipeline was only one product of his fertile imagination. A popular dandy with a flair for equipage and flowered vests, in 1890 he organized Manhattan's first ice manufacturing company. Before that he had started to pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1899, but the little steam company whose gross revenues the first year...
...been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological (scientific cave study) Society...
After an intermediate stage of carousing and brooding, he is suddenly convinced that he must find Dr. Dumartin, who is himself. His mental adventures in a gloomy, light-flecked, underground labyrinth, where he is searching for himself, comprise the distinctive part of the picture