Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon the U. S. to compensate Florida citrus growers for loss of property incident to the Federal program of destruction and quarantine...
...Animal Industry, including the inspection of beef, the control of hoof-and-mouth disease, cattle tick, livestock quarantine and interstate transportation...
...shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from the arsenal, set torches to the buildings, attacked the walls. The yard billowed with smoke, beneath which convicts chopped apart fire hoses, kept up a rattling fire. After five hours Warden Edgar S. Jennings reported the situation under control. Convicts killed: two; escaped: four. Estimated damage...
...bombing squadron dropped 50 bombs on the lower harbor and their air reconnaisance aided materially in governing shell fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort Hancock by the destruction of its observation and control towers and then, sweeping aside a mine field and under cover of low visibility, come close enough to pound the fort to powder. General Hero, however, saw only success in the defense operations under his command. His coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane...
...deny liquor clearance papers, to make it illegal in Canada to export liquor to the U. S. Last week Minister Euler met this U. S. request with a counter-proposition: "If the U. S. will insist upon clearance for their own boats to enable them to check and control their own people, the Canadian Government is quite ready to consider any further reasonable measure of co-operation with them." Minister Euler said two other things that tended to increase the heat in already superheated Washington: 1) "Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade...