Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ibanez kept his head, resigned in favor of Vice President Pedro Opazo Letelier, slipped through deserted streets at dawn into the country and over the border to Argentina...
Long has California been considered the domain of Southern Pacific Railway Co. But a year ago, over the many protests of the S. P., an invasion of the domain was approved by the I. C. C. Last week, through the redwooded Oregon-California border near Klamath Falls, where Herbert Hoover likes to fish, there was driven the first wedge of the invasion. A track-laying machine flaunting a "California Here We Come" banner noisily jerked its way toward and across the State line...
...Kansas Public Service Commission had investigators ready to go over the Doherty system. A bitter point with Governor Woodring is that in Oklahoma, Cities Service's retail rate is around 50¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that it jumps to 85¢ a few hundred miles across the Kansas border, then to $1 at Kansas City...
Take a pencil. Take a U. S. map. Draw a line from Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes...
...away from their research at the University of Berlin. In lieu of their presence, they sent a report, read by Dr. Alexander Goetz of Caltech, which caused much amazement. In 1927 the two first rigged a wire between two peaks at Monte Generoso, near the Italian-Swiss border. That is a region of frequent and violent thunderstorms. Like Benjamin Franklin, the Germans intended to bring lightning to earth. When the rigging was set and lightning bolted, the emitted sparks jumped a 15-ft. gap. Improved rigging carried lightning sparks which spanned 55 ft. That meant that 16,000,000 volts...