Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...six-month truce was forced upon them by the biggest company among them, U. S.-owned International Paper Co. Not a member of the institute, free to act independently, International offered newsprint at $55.20 per ton until July 1, promising 30 days' notice of any price change after July...
...than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir Kuzma. Capt. Dinger took his party up from Boiling Field. At 300 ft., for causes which none could interpret, the plane veered, dove, crashed. All died. Mrs. Kaynor was out buying Christmas presents for her six children when she heard Springfield newsboys crying her husband...
...travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...
...bearded man, dressed only in pajamas, was found stretched on the pavement of London's Horse Guards Parade, it seemed a fairly simple matter to identify him. But it soon turned out that: his beard was false, a patch of his left eyebrow shaved; he had been dead six hours, though he was seen alive only an hour before his body was found; he had been killed by a blow on the head, and shot afterwards. The finding of the murderer is a comparatively simple matter after it is proved who was murdered. Five detectives, professional and amateur, work...
...Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When the Naval Academy...