Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...
...Albany doorstep by Alfred Emanuel Smith, and which he has come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...
...moment in the cause of world peace. . . . On entering my mission here. I shall consider it my highest task to do everything in my power toward the creation of the closest bonds . . . between our two nations." After the Ambassador handed over his credentials, the President read in reply: "A deep love of peace is the common heritage of the people of both our countries. ... It will be your privilege and mine to work together." The two men smiled, shook hands, strolled into the Red Room for a private chat...
...there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course. No shouts of "Greenbacks! Give us Greenbacks!" rose from the Capitol, but 20 Congressmen...
...more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep hole...