Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...Lynn, Mass., a wild seal swam and dived in a stagnant inland pool beside a highway. Thousands of people paused to watch. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill. Unable to disperse the crowd the police, vexed, fetched a riot* gun, slaughtered the seal...
Dispatched by the Museum on an anthropological expedition, Putnam traveled inland from Merauke, a Dutch village on the coast with only 17 white inhabitants, going from village to village up the rivers in native canoesor in the barks of Chinese bird of paradise hunters. Overland travel was impossible, due to the non-existence of roads in the sections traversed...
...places but there were many negro families who were obliged to take refuge on the tops of the levees, where they are now living without proper shelter, sanitation, drinking water, and other necessities of life. The same situation applies to many other places along the Mississippi, and as far inland as fifty miles from...