Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of this immensely valuable land belongs to the Crown. But it would be neither seemly nor practicable for the Crown to build its own mills, manufacture its own pulp and paper. Wisely, the Crown has leased its rich timber limits to private companies, allowing them to draw on Canada's inexhaustible resources to supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut...
...lunchers also knew that this particular speech opened Senator Johnson's campaign for reelection, a campaign in which he was supposed to be fighting beside and with California's favorite son, Nominee Hoover. The only conclusion the lunchers could draw was that Nominee Hoover, in conference with Senator Johnson last fortnight, must have agreed to be on the Federal-operation side of the Boulder Dam question...
...Canal, and turned amorous attention to his passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark's, not content with winking, were stamping and frisking their tails; the winged lion was heard to laugh lecherously." Once in the jungles...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg thus savagely lashed upon the raw by the chief Administration news organ, remained silent for 48 hours, then allowed Washington correspondents to quote him indirectly as saying that the Treaty will not draw the U. S. into European affairs any more than have the various arbitration treaties existing between the U. S. and European states...
Last week, at the Hotel Carlton in Paris, occurred an incident that made Tilden almost popular among the Gauls. Drawings for the Davis Cup interzone finals between Italy and the U. S. were about to be held. "Where is Tilden?" said a French official, "we cannot go on with the draw unless the American captain is present...