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...said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been attracted into the center of this barren region...
...weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they had reservations. The best hotels, all full, were charging...
...cold-eyed, square-jawed Admiral had a job to do. Somewhere to the south lay barren and uninhabited Bouvet Island, discovered in 1739 and later ''lost'' by the chartmakers. Several years ago Norway and Britain fell to arguing over who owned it. Norway won. But then someone discovered that they had been talking about two different islands. The Admiralty told Vice Admiral Evans to find Bouvet. As soon as the wind fell last week, Admiral Evans pushed on south. Two days later the radio station at Simonstown, South Africa, caught a laconic message: "Have found Bouvet...
COUNTLESS tomes have been published and are still being written eulogizing the courage, character, and pioneer spirit of our colonial ancestors, books which to many are dull accounts of uninteresting trials on the barren Atlantic coast of those who felt they must found a new country. Most of these tales deal entirely with the New World aspects of these colonies. Here is a book which takes up not primarily the American side, but the English antecedents of the foundings of America...
...Society puts animals to death with lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...