Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence Waterway. President Hoover has long urged international development of a Lakes-to-Atlantic route, but Canada, suspicious, has held back. Quebec and the Maritime Provinces are either hostile or indifferent. A complicating issue is hydro-electric power. Canada fears that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington...
Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...
...undertake many another task than those for which it was called. Plans were laid for legislation to repeal the national origins provision of the immigration law, effective July 1, to reapportion the House of Representatives, to provide for the 1930 census. Demand was also heard for measures on flood control, prohibition, conservation, Wall Street speculation. Ambitious House members had hopefully prepared more than 300 bills for introduction...
Gorky, world-famed as a beetle-browed dramatist, storyteller, vagabond, and apostle of gloom (The Lower Depths), has decided that the mass of Russian journalism, directly under Soviet control though it is, is far too self-critical. Our Achievements will paint only the bright side of Soviet life...
...further explained that, though International Paper is a New York corporation (long dominated by the Publishers Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, control of the Herald and Traveler would remain in Boston through the appointment of Philip Stockton, John R. Macomber and Sidney W. Winslow Jr., all oldtime Bostonians, as trustees...