Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costs. Today the U. S. is spending $50,000,000 per year on river and harbor development, $35,000,000 on flood control. President Hoover predicted that his program could be undertaken and carried through by the expenditure of only an additional $10,000,000 per year - or $20,000,000 if the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway were included...
...Kiev's Comrade Health Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised the Slasher. All were arrested, will be tried for "criminal incompetence," probed to see if they have taken bribes from shrewd Cobbler Kolesnikov. Stars & Stripes. Raucous foghorns and tooting whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk...
...told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate...
...letter deals with other subjects. If I wrote immediately to Mr. Barton, as I believe that I did, my exultation was premature. Another surprise was in store for me. So soon after the first letter that even now its promptness is unintelligible, I received a second one:-- North-East Harbor, Maine August...
...Eliot, then at Mount Desert, suggesting that, since Wadsworth House was a College building, the rats might be regarded as our own rats, for whose conduct toward Mr. Barton the College was responsible. I have rarely been more surprised than when I read his reply. North-East Harbor, Maine August...