Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill creating a Colonial National Monument comprised of lands yet to be determined, but including parts of Yorktown Battlefield and lands & buildings in and around Williamsburg, Va. ¶ Passed the bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report on the advisability of creating an upper Mississippi National Park...
...public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct...
Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...
Compromise on this great issue was scarcely in the air last week as the one-time battlefield enemies argued in a bedroom. But the possibility was mooted that a reparations arbitration board might be set up, with Germany and France both binding themselves to accept its decisions...