Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flood control on the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; construction of navigable waterways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; agreement with Canada on the St. Lawrence waterway; development of the Mississippi Basin; Federal purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...
...LaFollette whirlwind, out of which a loud voice spoke continually, swept into Illinois after wrenching at Republican and Democratic strongholds up and down the Mississippi Basin. "This campaign," said the candidate in Rock Island, "is between those who produce wealth and those who exploit wealth...
Rights in the Saar Valley or Basin, a rich coal region, were obtained by France from Germany for 15 years in compensation for the destruction of coal mines in northern France during the War. At the end of the 15 years (1934) a plebiscite* is to be held to decide whether the district is to be: 1) autonomous; 2) annexed by France; 3) reannexed by Germany...
Cross country candidates will report at the locker building at 3 o'clock this afternoon for both the university and freshman cross country teams. They will probably start off the season's activities with a light jog around the river basin...
...Treaty, the fact being kept in mind that, while some of this territory was agricultural and not highly productive, yet the loss of Al-sace-Lorraine carried with it very large resources of iron ore and potash and industrial works of considerable magnitude, while the occupation of the Saar Basin had deprived Germany of extensive coal deposits...