Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seadromes"- enormous floating islands of steel and concrete, to cover 100 or more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes...
...told that last year the U. S. used 200,000 short tons of potash, that only about 22,000 tons were produced in this country, that the balance (costing close to $8,000,000) had been imported from European potash beds which extend from Stassfurt in Prussian Saxony (under German control) through and into Alsace (now under French control). He told that in August, 1924, these Germans and French had agreed to split the U. S. trade, 65% to Germany, 35% to France (England knew of this arrangement, did not interfere, only warned that she did not want British potash...
Will you kindly extend the subscription to TIME through December, 1926, for Pravda (Truth) at the above address and send the bill...
Last week the House of Representatives passed a so-called "deportation bill," an amendment to the immigration act. Among the things the bill would do is to extend from five to seven years the period in which an alien may be deported for becoming a public charge or going insane in the U. S. It also provides for the deportation of any alien convicted of an offense and sentenced to one year or more in prison. Among the minor changes proposed is the abolition of "moral turpitude"-conviction for a felony being substituted-as a reason for refusing admission...
...only did Premier Baldwin's plan of conciliation (TIME, May 24) go begging, but his time-limited offer to extend the coal subsidy was ignored by both embattled groups...