Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first step upward is the new nineteen million dollar canal which connects the Mississippi with the Gulf and opens the inner harbor and some hundred thousand vacant aces of adjacent harbor land to ocean going vessels. Curiously enough the project originated more than a hundred years ago in the epidemic of artificial waterways which produced the Eric canal and several others less famous in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Then as now there was heed of increased facilities; then because the railroads were not yet in existence--now because the increased costs, embargoes and the like, have brown them into...
...that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless orphans driven into exile or thrown into the waters of the harbor--and what does it mean...
...taken its first measure to restore order in this much troubled territory by incorporating a group of bandits in the police force, at an expense of $100,000. The bandits, it is reported, were glad to receive the bonus, for there has been a strike of the "river and harbor pirates' union" during the last few months, and profits have been scarce. Now wages are assured, due to the military impotence of the government...
...Boston wharves waiting for export. No ship can be expected to bring cargoes in to port and depart with an empty hold. This freight differential has so blocked the roads that feed the port of Boston that there can be no such exchange and nature has closed the harbor...
Miss Lindsay, a Grenfell Mission worker, was teaching school at Cartwright, Labrador, a village some fifty miles south of Indian Harbor, where I was spending the summer. Thus I happen to know the facts in the case. She left one morning, with her bathing suit, saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that...