Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port in the U. S. In 1931, at $1,000 a month, Stockton wooed Engineer Allin away from his astounding Texas creation to be port director of Stockton...
...coffee at artificial prices, during fat years, storing it for resale during lean) which lasted until the War. It was semi-successful. A second valorization program, started in 1924, proved a vast failure when there were four bumper crops in succession. Result was the 1930 Brazilian Revolution and the creation of the Departamento Nacional do Cafe, which has been grappling with the problem ever since...
...frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus creation with their usual symbols, a man and a woman...
Little TVAS, "... I recommended to the last session of the Congress the creation of seven planning regions, in which local people will originate and co-ordinate recommendations as to work of this kind to be done in their particular regions. The Congress will, of course, determine the projects to be selected within the budget limits...
...shiny now contraption that looks like a cross between an electric lawnmower and the Wright Brothers' first airplane moves smoothly along over the elm covered lawn of the Yard scooping leaves as it goes. Creation of a vacuum is the principle by which the machine operates. A large roller is turned, creating a fine vacuum and whoosh!--all the leaves are in the basket...