Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate in 1909, the 77-year-old son of Captain Thomas Jefferson Fletcher, C.S.A., was gravely dismayed when Michigan's Vandenberg last winter convinced the Senate that his latest & greatest project was not only useless but dangerous, might turn south Florida into...
...coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left Africa, and Britain's Ethiopian campaign was successfully over...
Water transportation is the most important single factor in J. & L. economy. A stanch supporter of inland waterways development, the company pioneered in shipping steel by river in the early 1920's, now has a fleet of 250 barges, six tugs, plying the waters of the Mississippi River basin. On an average, J. & L. dispatches two tows per month, each loaded with 10,000 tons of finished steel destined for Southern and Southwestern markets. Export steel is transshiped at New Orleans. Water transportation saves J. & L. as much as $4,000,000 per year...
Major suggestions made by Mr. Andrews are the establishment of a great rice market in Bangkok, the reconstruction of the port to accomodate large ships, the building of inland highways for truck transportation, and the expansion of cooperative societies to assist farmers in producing and marketing their crops and to assist in credit arrangements...
...Inland Steel made $9,417,000 in 1935 as against $3,729,000 in 1934. This profit did not include the first nine months' earnings of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., which would have added $691,000 to Inland's total. The Ryerson company was acquired last September. Inland, ably managed by Chicago's Block family, has rivaled National as a good earner in bad times...