Word: intermountain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week from Yellowstone Park to Spokane. At Helena, Mont., snuggled under the eastern wall of the Rockies and at the foot of the Continental Divide, the ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town...
...Colorado, produces annually 10,000,000 bags (100 Ib. per bag). Charles Boettcher is vice president and member of the executive committee. His son Claude Kedzie Boettcher is a Great Western director as well as board chairman of the $24,000,000 Denver National Bank and of the Denver & Intermountain Ry. Charles 2nd, Claude's son, operates a brokerage firm...
...friends in Wall Street or from his new Mormon assistant, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, who lately came out of Utah (TIME, Jan. 22) with the wisdom of 43 years of age, with economic ideas like those of most New Dealers, and the record of having brought his chain of 26 intermountain State banks through Depression with no casualties except a few amalgamations...
...news section thoroughly covered the State, the Nation and the world. Every intermountain town of importance had its Anaconda Standard bureau. It was like a metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists...