Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed bills increasing funds to modernize the battleships Oklahoma, Nevada, California and to complete two submarines. ¶ Passed bills adjusting the personnel and pay of Marines, Army, Navy, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service. ¶ Passed a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross upon Orville Wright and the late Wilbur Wright; sent it to the Senate...
Another difference was the distribution of water. The Colorado drains seven States -Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California. The first four, the Upper Tier, have long been agreed on their shares of the water. The Lower Tier-Nevada, Arizona, California -have long quarreled about how to divide the 7,500,000 acre-feet that they will get between them. Nevada was satisfied with 300,000 acre feet; California wanted 4,600,000, Arizona 3,000.000. After sharp remarks between California's whitecrested Johnson and Arizona's long-embattled Ashurst and Hayden, the Senate voted Nevada...
...expenditure, $25,000,000 is to be spent protecting the sub-sea-level Imperial Valley of California from the Colorado's periodic floods...
...panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such virulence as that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight...
...girls' republic." The "republic" was to have an agricultural college and a school of domestic science. But Mr. Perky died before his Maryland Utopia could be brought into being. Meanwhile Shredded Wheat continued to expand, has now five factories-two in Niagara Falls, one in Canada, one in California, one in England...