Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Panama Canal, inland waterway of mighty ships, might well have given a watery chuckle and gurgle; for some profound reason all U. S. officialdom seemed suddenly anxious to view...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...
...Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which, when developed, may well...
...Inland Steel...
...content with his wandering Leys is now looking toward India. He has travelled enough by sea, he says, and is looking for a long land trek. In 1928 he hopes to go inland through India, and come out through China