Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deep Sea Mail...
...with the rest of my shipmates, must take exception to paragraph six of J. A. Stiver's letter in the March 5 issue entitled ''Deep Sea Mail...
...Angeles' well-defended port, shippers were masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened...
...practice of Augustus Caesar, when preparing to take over some new bloc of power, to deliver a eulogy on the virtues of the republic and announce his deep solicitude for the liberties and happiness of the people. How faithfully this fine precedent has been emulated in the modern world by dictators and bureaucrats alike...
Economic Tsar. Behind the Storm Troop mutiny of last fortnight lay deep-rooted discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...