Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. Minister Massey delivered to Statesman Stimson Canada's formal note of protest against the sinking of the Canadian registered rumrunner I'm Alone, sunk by U. S. Coast Guards men 200 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 1, et seq.}. Statesman Stim son described the epistle as "temperate and conciliatory." He sat himself down to prepare a reply...
...contract to build the first subway on the West coast of South America was secured, last week, by Don Luis Lagar-rigue, potent Chilean engineer. For the sum of $2,200,000 he will lay 30 blocks of subway under Santiago's famed avenue, the Alameda de las Delicias...
...under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude, member of the French Academy of Sciences at Havana, to utilize temperature to run turbines...
...Pacific Coast last week came frosts. Blighted were peaches, apricots, walnuts, plums, prunes, almonds, grapes, potatoes, and Kolster Radio. The frost on the crops was an act of Providence. The slump in Kolster Radio proceeded from a 1928 earnings statement that showed earnings of 20? a share. Kolster stock has been prominent on the Coast partly through the fact that Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels (TIME, Nov. 19) is chairman of its board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried...
...game was originated at the University of Michigan. It was successful in its first year there and has grown more popular every season. From Michigan it spread rapidly throughout the Middle West and to the coast. It has been adopted in many Eastern schools, but this is the first time it has been sponsored by an Eastern college...