Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a two-day rainfall the rivers La Plata and Riachuelo were flooded to an unusual height. The river front districts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
...Sturzo, leader of the Popular Party, does not intend to abandon this advantage. Mussolini, probably backed by the anti-democratic Jesuit wing of the Vatican, is engaged in a duel with the astute little priest, and hopes to force him from leadership. Don Sturzo's popularity with the Party is immense. A Party Congress is expected and there Don Sturzo will either show his strength or be ousted from command...
...British lines refuse to abandon this practice, and give as a reason that our consul would not, for example, visé before June 1 passports for sailing on July 1, and that it was necessary for them to make bookings longer in advance. Their real reason, it is understood, is a suspicion that when a prospective immigrant, unbooked for sailing, goes to the American consulate to get a visa, American officials there use undue influence to make him take an American vessel...
...Dover, England, Leon Amundsen, brother of Roald (explorer), received a telegram dated Norwick, Alaska: "Trial flight held May 11. result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced to abandon proposed flight [over North Pole]. Have written...
...begun with the investigation of 1872. In 1876 Standard influence had caused the pigeonholing of the first Interstate Commerce Bill. In 1879 Rockefeller and his associates were indicted for conspiracy, but all suits were withdrawn in 1880 in return for agreements by the Standard and the Pennsylvania to abandon practice against producers. In 1907 Judge Landis found the com-pany guilty on 1,462 rebating counts and imposed a record fine of $29,240,000. This decree was set aside on a technicality by a higher court, and the suit was dismissed on retrial...