Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone or the Shoshone bounding down the endless rapids insured the making of canoes. The Pursuit of Happiness that surges through American history as deeply as the protection of life and liberty, that remained alive even through the heartbreaking days of the Civil War, remained alive through ten years of depression. It was in the millions of citizens who peacefully pottered around making things in basements and backyards, the tinkerers with old automobiles...
Whatever the raider, the incident raised one challenging question. Where was she based? The attack occurred at least 6,000 miles from German waters, and even the Admiral Scheer could cruise only 10,000. Fuel and supplies must have come from either a South American or West Indian port...
...London, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced that the Admiralty was already putting into operation a "prearranged plan" to cope with all this. The plan was apparently to send out part of Britain's American squadron, the cruisers York, Berwick, Exeter, to look for the raider...
Yesterday the head of the German Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, officially informed the American Government, through the United States Naval Attache in Berlin that according to information on which he relied, an American ship, the Iroquois, is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast...
...Iroquois sailed from Ireland on Oct. 2 with a full list of 566 American passengers...