Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...
...long journey to these far lands without a tremor, while, needless to say, our women sit idly at home, not so much as stepping outside their own front door. Even our men do not dare take one step toward an ambition to make a new home in distant parts...
...certainly seems that the preposterous number of existing "all"-teams should provide a berth for even the most distant possibility, but nothing short of an eleven picked from all those teams which played in the Stadium this fall clad in Crimson jerseys would seem to satisfy a number of voluble critics. And such a team does not seem very far off unless the newspapers can get professional hockey started by the week before instead of the week after the close of the football season...
...state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation. And a few blocks distant, President Daniel Willard of the great Baltimore & Ohio R. R. rose in the Hotel Commodore to add: "Since 1920, railroad earnings have fallen short of a 'fair' percentage...
...freak obligations of railroad finance. For on May 1, 1863, the Elmira & Williamsport R. R. issued $569,500 coupon bonds, in denominations of $500, not callable before date of maturity. That date was fixed at Oct. 1, 2862, just seven months less than 1,000 years distant. When the bonds mature, the E. & M. or owning roads will have paid interest charges of some...