Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the War, the city of Riga was the second most important port on the Baltic. With the re-establishment of Poland and the creation of Latvia, Riga shriveled. Poles built a port of their own at Gdynia. Foreign steamers that used to call at Riga passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga...
...concerned nitrates, needful in peace as fertilizer, in war as the basis of explosives. Because Chile digs nitrates from her natural deposits, because German producers of synthetic nitrogen cut prices, threatened to ruin her, Chile's whole nitrate industry was rationalized, reorganized and speeded up last year by the creation of "Cosach," the $375,000,000 nitrate trust, Compania De Salitre De Chile (TIME, July 28, 1930). Last week the most violent political and editorial attacks on Cosach were hurled up & down the length of slender Chile...
...will be nominated for the Presidency and William Blank for the Vice-Presidency; 6) the steady, if somewhat reduced, flow of cash into the parties' respective campaign chests; 7) the noisy advancement of Senatorial candidacies in 32 or more States, of Congressional candidacies in all 48; 8) the creation of nation-wide issues amidst the pulsing roar of partisan oratory; 9) the march of some 37,000,000 citizens on Nov. 8 to the polls to elect the 32nd President of the U. S. and the 73rd Congress...
Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division had, a year ago, urged the creation of additional judgeships to relieve calendar congestion. The Brooklyn Bar Association recommended the creation of eight places. Boss McCooey "took the initiative myself," planned to increase the number of places to twelve.* He offered the Republicans, who controlled the legislature, five of them. The law was passed. Two hours before the Republican and Democratic judicial conventions last September, Boss McCooey met Frederick J. H. Kracke, who had succeeded Mr. Steinbrink as Brooklyn's Republican boss, and they exchanged the names of the candidates slated...
...strangest paintings ever to win a first prize," said the Chicago Daily News. "It is an amusing creation but seems a trifle thin to have been so greatly honored," commented the Tribune...