Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take place a week from this Saturday, April 20, when Manhattan College will race her Varsity crew against the Crimson Jayvees. The Manhattan Jayvees will take on Coach Charlie Whiteside's third crew. All the races will be rowed in Harvard shells and over the new course in the Basin...
...March sunlight gilded their breakfast tables, Washingtonians read in their morning papers that in about two weeks the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin would be in full bloom. The same day Kansans breakfasted by lamp light and read in their morning papers that one of the worst dust storms in the history of their State was sweeping darkly overhead. Damp sheets hung over the windows, but table cloths were grimy. Urchins wrote their names on the dusty china. Food had a gritty taste. Dirt drifted around doorways like snow. People who ventured outside coughed and choked...
...washed with soap & water. Set in the wall is an electric clock and beneath it a radio. Off the living room are two bedrooms, small but well planned, with comparatively ample closet space. All rooms are air-conditioned. The bathroom is equipped with wall-hung toilet and wash basin which simplify housecleaning. The basin is big enough to bathe a baby in. Over the toilet is a cabinet with such books as Getting the Most out of Life in this House...
With the executive genius for which RKO wanted to pay him $30,000 a year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over...
Erosion. Granary of the U. S. is the Mississippi Basin. Wind and water have stripped one-fourth of its tilled lands to the subsoil, hopelessly gullied much more. "The very land is dying," said the President's Committee. "Measured by man's brief generations it is losing forever its ability to produce food." In this national emergency the national Government must lead. Conservatively estimated, erosion costs the U. S. $400,000,000 per year. In a 20-year program of co-operation with States, counties and individual farmers, the Government could check erosion at a cost...