Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlarging the U. S. Navy, was considering a provision to provide $15,000,000 "for development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts. His reasoning: A 360-mile ditch between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in northern Montana would open a waterway at least six feet deep between New Orleans and Portland, Ore. (A 260-mile ditch between the Potomac and Ohio would open a waterway from Washington, D. C. to Cairo, Ill. on the Mississippi...
...Andres Nin, onetime secretary to Leon Trotsky and head of Leftist Spain's POUM (Dissident Communist Party), was murdered and tossed into a ditch outside Madrid eight months...
...bullet-riddled body of Ignace Reiss, a Soviet secret agent who renounced Stalinism, was found in a ditch outside Lausanne, Switzerland, seven months...
...President's next press conference, however, the Splawn report had somehow become general knowledge. Its 60 pages offer both immediate remedies anda long-range program to pull the roads out of the deepest ditch in their history...
...Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected to buy a license. Now living in Stamford, Conn., where he is writing a long history of socialism, Edmund Wilson last month married pretty, Seattle-born Mary McCarthy. Two years ago in the Nation Mary McCarthy summed up much younger-generation opinion when...