Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program for 1937. It called for the creation of regional agencies similar to TVA, which would become one of seven dividing the whole U. S.: one for the Atlantic Seaboard, one for the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, one for the deep South (TVA), one for the Missouri Basin, one for the Arkansas Valley and Texas, one for the Columbia River Valley (already in formation), one for California and the Colorado River Basin. These would undertake national planning in their respective spheres, cope with flood control, soil erosion and the other conservation problems. Although the President hardly mentioned electric power...
...planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals he serves all-comers...
...festivities start at 10 o'clock, the evening reaching a climax with a moonlight boat ride on the Charles if there's a moon. Anyway sightseeing boats from the Basin will be on hand at an impromptu landing near the House to take those who want to for a cooler on, the river...
Times of the two trials were nearly the same, Lowell crossing the line of the Henley distance in 7:14, while Kirkland's winning time was just three-fifths of a second slower. Conditions in the Basin were ideal...
...central figure of Mittel-Europa, scheming for a pan-Germany from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. Then Italy was a wavering German satellite. Now she is the virtual Boss of central Europe and pan-Germany must wait upon Italy's permission even to penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France, Mussolini and von Neurath were believed by newshawks last week to have discussed a new security pact for Western Europe, which Britain and France would be asked to join, guaranteeing the safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German...