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Show The Pennsylvania Railroad, one of the nation's leading coal carrying carry-ing roads, is also ona of the nation's na-tion's largest owners of coal properties, prop-erties, some 400,000 acres. The term "base metals" Is used to describe common metals, such as nickel, copper and chromium, as distinct from the precious metals met-als which are platinum, palladium, , rhodium, ruthenium, iridum, osmium, os-mium, gold and silver. i Tlmbermen call the porcupine ' the forest gangster, for wherever i this vegetarian travels on its noc-; noc-; turnal hunts for food, dead or dying treetops mark its path. Porcupines Por-cupines kill or stunt young trees by gnawing Into the inner bark and cambium layer, which are vital vi-tal to the tree's growth. I ' i The two-party system ts actually actual-ly something of a rarity around the world, being firmly entrenched only in the United States, Great Hiitain, Canada, Australia, New : Zealand, some parts of Latin J America and a few other coun- : tries i . To attract attention to their eyes, belles of the gay nineties used j lorgnettes, even though they had j no eye defects. |