Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies-roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built a vast concrete Flemish castle ("Maryhill") overlooking the Columbia River. But the death of King Leopold...
...Border Terriers, never shown in the U. S. before, were not recognized as a breed in England until 1920. They are smart fox-hunting dogs and get their name because they come from the borderland of Scotland and England. They are small, hard-looking terriers, a foot high and weighing about 15 Ib. A West Point cadet who showed three of them had the class to himself. Best was Blacklyne Lady...
Despite several days of storm and blizzard that had stopped trains, sent ships to port, at Bardonecchia (some eight miles from the French border) three companies of Alpine troops with jaunty eagle feathers in their hats and skis slung over their shoulders marched out of barracks for a practice ascent of Monte Galambra. Snowfall was so heavy that two companies turned back. The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit. Halfway down they were forced to take shelter in a rest house, were marooned there nearly 36 hours without food...
...animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators were Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut (chairman), Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, Key Pittman of Nevada, Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. After finishing a trip into Midwest and Western States and along the Canadian border, they announced that two more years would be necessary before they could become completely wise about conservation...
First effect of annexation would be the extinction of Tia Juana and Agua Caliente just over the border as drinking-racing-gambling resorts for U. S. tourists...