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What (who) is O Roy Chalk - definition
AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN
Roy chalk
O. Roy Chalk
Oscar Roy Chalk (June 7, 1907 – December 1, 1995) was a New York entrepreneur who owned real estate, airlines, bus companies, newspapers and a rail line that hauled bananas in Central America. His diverse holdings included DC Transit, Trans Caribbean Airways, the Houdon bust of Thomas Jefferson now at Monticello, the Chalk Emerald, and the New York Spanish-language newspapers El Diario de Nueva York and La Prensa, merging them into El Diario La Prensa.
chalk
![Former underground [[chalk mine]] in [[Meudon]], France](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carrieres de Meudon.jpg?width=200 "Former underground [[chalk mine]] in [[Meudon]], France")
![Child drawing with [[sidewalk chalk]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chalk-Sidewalk-Art-0092.jpg?width=200 "Child drawing with [[sidewalk chalk]]")
![Chalk from the White Cliffs of Dover, England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chalk ("Upper Chalk" Formation, Upper Cretaceous; White Cliffs of Dover, England, southern Britain).jpg?width=200 "Chalk from the White Cliffs of Dover, England")
.jpg?width=200 "Chalk in different colors")
!["Nitzana Chalk curves" situated at Western [[Negev]], [[Israel]], are chalk deposits formed in the [[Mesozoic]] era's [[Tethys Ocean]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nitzana chalk curves (2), Western Negev, Israel.jpg?width=200 "\"Nitzana Chalk curves\" situated at Western [[Negev]], [[Israel]], are chalk deposits formed in the [[Mesozoic]] era's [[Tethys Ocean]]")
SOFT, WHITE, POROUS SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Chalk pit; Tailor's chalk; Black chalk; Chalkstone; Pavement chalk; Chalk rock; Chalk (rock); Chalk stick
(chalks, chalking, chalked)
1.
Chalk is a type of soft white rock. You can use small pieces of it for writing or drawing with.
...the highest chalk cliffs in Britain...
Her skin was chalk white and dry-looking.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
2.
Chalk is small sticks of chalk, or a substance similar to chalk, used for writing or drawing with.
...somebody writing with a piece of chalk.
...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
3.
If you chalk something, you draw or write it using a piece of chalk.
He chalked the message on the blackboard...
There was a blackboard with seven names chalked on it.
VERB: V n, V-ed
4.
If you say that two people or things are like chalk and cheese, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other. (BRIT)
The two places, he insists, are as different as chalk and cheese...
We are very aware of our differences, we accept that we are chalk and cheese.
PHRASE [emphasis]
chalk
SOFT, WHITE, POROUS SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Chalk pit; Tailor's chalk; Black chalk; Chalkstone; Pavement chalk; Chalk rock; Chalk (rock); Chalk stick
n.
1) to write with chalk (on a blackboard)
2) a piece of chalk
Wikipedia
O. Roy Chalk
Oscar Roy Chalk (June 7, 1907 – December 1, 1995) was a New York entrepreneur who owned real estate, airlines, bus companies, newspapers and a rail line that hauled bananas in Central America. His diverse holdings included DC Transit, Trans Caribbean Airways, the Houdon bust of Thomas Jefferson now at Monticello, the Chalk Emerald, and the New York Spanish-language newspapers El Diario de Nueva York and La Prensa, merging them into El Diario La Prensa.
