Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone...
...motored, myself and two others, from St. Petersburg to Naples on the west coast, and then across to Miami and from there south to Lower Metacumbe. The section of the glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during...
...Liberia is a large country, ruled by a few thousand Negroes, the descendants of immigrant freedmen from the United States. This handful of Americo-Liberians struggles to maintain a European civilization in the unhealthy lowlands along the coast, and has nominal control over many savage native tribes in the hinterland. The country is completely undeveloped and the outlook from every point of view has been, until very recently, most disheartening...
...question may have been violating the laws of the United States, but the offense did not warrant its being sunk beyond the twelve mile limit. Such an action offers the British government excellent grounds for protest and leaves this country without a valid excuse. The enthusiasm of the coast guard in executing their duties might be satisfactory to the W. C. T. U., but their breach of international etiquette certainly will not find favor in diplomatic circles...
Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...