Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five o'clock struck. All round Britain the doors of His Majesty's Customs Houses rumbled shut last week. British Free Trade was at an end as the recently enacted tariff bill went into effect. All week long the Channel was black with ships, the "Dumping Armada." British papers called it, rushing to Britain with goods from all over the world. God seemed to be on the side of the tariff. Heavy gales kept hundreds of lumbering freighters at sea. When 5 o'clock sounded from Big Ben at least 50 ships of the "Dumping Armada" were...
...months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...
...airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that nothing deserves to be worshipped but Allah, Allah . . . that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, Allah...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing the expenditure of $1,000.000 for Federal participation in the Chicago 1933 World's Fair. $725,000 less than the appropriation authorized by the Senate. ¶ Adopted a bill for improvements in the channel of the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland...
...calendar. Last summer when the Poseidon sank off the coast of China with 20 men, Able Seaman Morris saved himself by jumping over the side as she went down. Last week he was aboard the M-2 off the Bill of Portland in that part of the English Channel known as "Dead Man's Bay" because of the number of ships wrecked there during the War. At 10:30 one morning the M-2 radioed H. M. S. Titania that she was going to dive. Seaman Morris helped to screw her hatches tight. Down she went and with...