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...State of Utah the rock of ages has assumed strange forms. Geologically, as observed in such scenic reservations as Bryce Canyon National Park, The Cedar Breaks, Zion National Park (see map p. 27), the rock has been sculptured by erosion, forming unearthly peaks and terraces, ornate gorges, petrified and ghostly cities. Utah's religious rock of ages-its dominant church-is equally exotic. It is, as everyone knows, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or, more familiarly, the Mormon Church. Fully half of Utah's half-million souls are Mormons. The history and commercial development...
...Empire make it desirable to hold Palestine, then the Balfour Declaration becomes a sacred pledge, England's word of honor that "His Majesty's Government . will use their best endeavors" etc., and naturally one cannot let the Jews down after they have built their Zion upon this rock...
...unlawful for an Indian to carry a pail of sea water to his home. Although India has four of the world's best rock salt areas in the world, could locally manufacture all the salt necessary, the British government dumps some 600,000 tons in the Indian market annually, thus provides ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby...
...Rock Island-'Frisco. The first major move by Dillon, Read & Co. in the railroad field was their obtaining control of the Seaboard Air Line. Last week it was revealed that the firm controls about 11% of the outstanding stock of Rock Island and a large block of St. Louis & San Francisco, which controls Rock Island. Foreseen: a Rock Island-'Frisco merger...
...explorers went, through a meagre crevice in the tunnel to yet another hall. The rocks were coated with powdery limestone formation. Nicholson jumped from a rock onto seemingly solid floor, sank neck deep into powdery dust which, clouding aloft from its aeons of tranquillity, floated steadily off through an immense opening near the ceiling...