Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shattuck '01 were the two leaders. Their purpose was to make a biological and medical survey of Liberia, that being the country of Africa which was least known in these fields. After spending several months in this region, they proceeded through Belgian Congo to Mount Mombassa on the east coast, in order to complete their data...
...transoceanic merchantmen owned in the U. S., three-fifths are owned by the Government. But only 39 were on the Pacific Coast. These the Shipping Board sold for $3,743,661 in three groups...
Prohibition in 1928, as finally provided for in the bill passed last week by the bickering Representatives of the People, will cost about $28,000,000-13 millions for the Prohibition Unit, 15 millions for the U. S. Coast Guard. During the debate, Representative Mead had produced figures snowing that, while spending some 26 millions to make the U. S. dry last year, U. S. citizens spent some 26 millions importing liquor from Canada...
...California, is the rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles could not overlook it when a San Francisco man-Professor-Emeritus Bailey Willis of Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...
...Pacific Coast line of seismicity, which extends at least 8,000 miles from the Arctic circle to Tehuantepec...