Word: basin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome, Nov. 19--The rise of Austria as a balancing factor" in the Danubian Basin with the full support of Italy was predicted tonight in a communique briefly outlining the results of the historic Austro-Italian conversations here...
Once safely launched, tugs would warp the liner into her fitting basin where work on the superstructure should be completed by 1936. In the spring of that year she will take her place upon the sea as the greatest ship ever to fly the British flag...
...Contest." The spectator's fleet in Newport Harbor made it, said a destroyer captain, "worse than Shanghai Basin." Surrounded by every conceivable kind of ocean-going craft was a quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled...
...Surgeon probed the hole, felt a hard mass. With forceps he pulled at the mass. It came loose, a strange-looking something the size of a plum. Surgeon Sweet paused several seconds while the Negro artist sketched the "tumor" and cavity, then tossed the "growth" into a catch basin, reamed the cavity in Warden Lawes's leg, put in a drain and some stitches, and was done...
...nearly 200,000,000 bu., have not had enough water to raise 150,000,000 bu. Great Britain and Ireland, almost wholly dependent on the world for wheat, consume more than 275,000,000 bu., produce less than a quarter of that amount. This year the Danube Basin will have no wheat to spare after feeding its own territory, and Spain also needs most of her wheat for her own people. Thus the wheat-importing countries of Europe were looking anxiously across the seas last week to the three principal countries with exportable surpluses?Argentina, Australia, Canada...