Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...zone of applicability for the system," Mr. Murray began, "extends from Boston to Washington and inland from the coast for 150 miles; a territory embracing 23 million people or more than one-fifth of the population of the United States. In this zone there are 36,000 miles of heavy traction railroads, 96,000 industrial plants and 550 central electrical stations producing power. Electricity is the greatest agent of power in the world today, the father of all accomplishments, moral, intellectual, and physical. It is only by harnessing this power into one central organization that we can hope to attain...
...domestic commerce are to be created and co-operation will be furthered between various trade organizations. Then, too, by giving to this department many of the duties which at present are assigned to other executive departments, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Directorship of Public Roads, and to Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service, the power of the Secretary of Commerce will be increased beyond his former mere shadow of authority...
...ministry and the return to power of King Constantine has aroused agitation for the revision of the Treaty of Sevres between the Allies and Turkey. This movement finds favor with three Mediterranean peoples: Italy has from the beginning been wary of the rise of her new neighbor on the inland sea, and has cast longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost...