Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Madame Sutter arrived, Sutter's gold had wiped out New Helvetia. She died of heart failure on the spot, lucky woman. The world, quite mad, had overrun the Sacramento Valley, tearing open its hills for gold, silver, platinum. Sutter's men deserted to wash gravel. His herds died, unmilked. His barns fell. His crops wasted. All his fat lands were squatted on, his fort occupied, by hordes of gold-mad grabbers who had shouted his name from the Mediterranean, across Panama, up to the Golden Gate; from Siberia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, up to the Golden Gate. Gunboats...
...found, however, that this place would not be suitable for erection of the building. At the spot which had been chosen, it was discovered that there was a bed of gravel about 25 feet deep, making it impractical to build a large structure upon...
...whether the Federal Government of this country shall actually absorb the functions of the States so that they are no longer sovereign as provided in the Constitution. Also whether the same government shall establish a paternalism over the individual citizen, directing his activities from the cradle to the gravel or whether, on the contrary, we shall return to the theory of our fathers...
...highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...Pacific coast, comparable to the ancient landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...