Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of war. Last week's accord gained for Britain Irish goodwill, assured her of easy access to vital supplies from agricultural Eire in wartime. While the treaty made no commitments regarding Irish defenses, it is expected that Britain will assist Eire in developing her army, strengthening her coast defenses and constructing a small navy...
...Pacific lost its annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...
...line prepared last week to dismiss 1,200 men for good & all, Panama Pacific expressed the hope that the Maritime Commission would buy the three idle ships, charter them for operation by other companies between New York and the east coast of South America...
Deep Sea Explorer William Beebe returned to Manhattan last week from a six-month, 2,000-mile expedition, sponsored by the New York Zoological Society, off the west coast of Central America. Of the 20,000 specimens of marine life taken, prize catch was a 1½-inch sailfish, which Ichthyologist Beebe thought might be "the first example of a young sailfish ever captured...
...1920s the tide of musical revolution hit U. S. shores and modernism half-drowned the U. S. intelligentsia. Modernist music was featured prominently on symphonic programs from coast to coast...