Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers and their dense delta tangles, survivors of the South's once great game supply-wild fowl, deer, turkeys-still abound, now enjoyed by rich Yankees who have bought up the old plantations...
Messrs. Starling & Summerlin caused the channel leading in to the wharf at Mount Vernon to be dragged for possible obstructions when the yacht Potomac takes the King there to pay homage to George Washington. Secret Service men combed the length of Pennsylvania Avenue, interviewing shopkeepers and householders along the line of the arriving procession, and 50,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, Washington police and firemen were told off to wall the streets. The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington...
Alabama's Representative Joe Starnes drafted a bill some months ago to give PWA another $500,000,000 in fiscal 1940. Since then PWA has been "reorganized," along with WPA, USHA and several other agencies, into a new Federal Works Agency (effective July 1). Not the Starnes bill, but a PWA allotment of similar size out of the money it was going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery...
...Berlin one day last week all workers were given a half holiday with pay. Factories, shops and offices hung out yards of gay Yugoslav flags distributed by Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, while their employes marched in masses to allotted cheering stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...
...winners in this competition were Bill Thorn and Mac Stevens, with the slight possibility of Larry Krieger being taken along as an alternate. It has been decided pretty definitely that Walt Muther, who would be the Crimson alternate on the squad, will not go along so Krieger's chances or going are rather slim...