Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disputes between U. S. settlers in the northwest and the (British) Hudson's Bay Co. became critical when the Democrats made their campaign slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight"-meaning that Oregon should extend north to 54° 40' and include about half of what is now British Columbia and Alberta, provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The Democrats won the election, did not get the "fifty-four forty" line (it was settled at 49°) and also did not fight, having on their hands the Mexican...
London, Midland & Scottish R. R., Euston to Colwyn Bay...
Alexandria Bay...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...
...proverbially negligent inhabitants have recently completed a subway under the driving impetus of Fascismo. Moreover the boulevard along the seafront, long pot-holed and undulant, is now smooth. His Majesty looked upon these things and found them good. That night fireworks spurted up from a barge anchored in the bay, and Vesuvius made notable His Majesty's visit by an almost polite eruption. No lava spilled from the great cone, but jets of pinky-lighted steam spurted high, portentous rumblings were heard, and few rocks were belched...