Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grabbed at the netting to clamber to the Rex's rail. Stralla's seamen met them with a blast from the Rex's fire hose. The Warren party fished out their men, returned to shore, where a stronger squadron was organized, including ships of the Coast Guard and Fish & Game Commission. The 600 patrons were returned to shore during a truce, at dawn, and then the Warren fleet anchored or cruised around the Rex, promising to starve its commander & crew into submission...
Attorney General Frank Murphy's right arm reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months...
...union ahead of their Party. He confessed that he had used and would continue to use Communist money, brains and brawn when they could help win something for the discontented stevedores, lumberjacks, fruit pickers, etc., in his longshoremen's and related C. I. O. unions on the West Coast. He conceded that Communists try to use him and his unions, denied that they succeeded, invited them to keep on trying. That his brass-tacks unionism has worked well enough to make him bigger game than any U. S. Communist, his predicament proved...
...Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations and to German submarines with cool impartiality. By 1916 March had cornered the Spanish oil and petrol business. He sold...
...hopping westward to the island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert...