Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still digging deep into the refuse pile of canceled airmail contracts. Alabama's smart little Senator Black last week plucked out some new names that made news because of their connections with the Senate...
...done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...
...legislature in 1903 declared a permanent closed season. Twelve years later a pair of beavers were brought from Wisconsin, turned loose in a State game refuge. At intervals in the next nine years Pennsylvania's Game Commission imported 46 more pairs. The beavers settled down to stay. Needing deep water for their island lodges, they gnawed down trees, floated them through canals of their own making, gathered up sticks, stones and mud. With their strong front paws they packed all such material together in high, solid dams (see cut). Their houses, too, they built of sticks & mud, above water...
Beaver pelts were once standard wilderness money, accepted by Indians and whites at about $4 each. A prime pelt now brings up to $20. Best pelts, deep, lustrous, dark brown, come from Alaska, northeastern Canada, northeastern U. S. Pelts from states east of the Rocky Mountains, except Michigan and Wisconsin, are paler, worth from $4 to $12. Last week furriers were waiting to see the trophies of Edward Boop and other Pennsylvanians before they set a price...
Already waist deep in the commercial banking business, the Federal Government last week for the first time set itself up as a dealer in municipal bonds. Public Works Administrator Ickcs has on his shelves some $58,000,000 of such securities which he bought to finance labor-making projects. Like any smart bond dealer he saw in the present municipal bond boomlet a fine opportunity to turn over his capital. Last week while financial sections of the Press blossomed with municipal bond advertisements, Bond Dealer Ickes offered for public sale his first batch of PWA municipals...