Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bait. As in Ossabaw Sound off Georgia the week before, the President trolled his line for hours in the waters about Fernandina but caught nothing worth keeping. Disgusted, he ordered the U. S. S. S. Sequoia, his holiday craft, to wind its way down the coast through the twisty inland waterway to better fun and fishing. Progress was slow through shoal waters. Twice the Sequoia grounded. The President baked in the sun, played Hoover-ball, worked at a desk set up under an awning on the after deck...
...which puts public funds to private use for the national welfare; 2) relief which supplies jobless millions with a "dole" not very different in principle from Socialist recommendations; 3) Domestic Allotment which, when enacted, will take money from one class to give to another class; 4) Inland Waterways Corp., a perfect example of government-in-business. Because the War Department ordered the transfer of troops from Fort Russell, Tex. to Kentucky, Tom Connally, Texas' long-haired, small-footed Senator, raced to Secretary Hurley to protest "this arbitrary, autocratic and unwarranted action." He was, he said, "coldly and bluntly told...
This was no empty claim since the Chinese Government, despite its sacrifice of the provincial revenues, still held and holds the main source of Chinese income, the Maritime Customs, a source beyond the reach of squabbling inland war lords. Moreover China's bonds are mostly payable in English pounds and sterling has slipped steadily during 1932-thus making it easier for China to pay interest...
Like the little auk, the murre feeds on ocean Crustacea, starves inland. Last week Dr. William Reid Blair, director of New York's Bronx Zoo, thought the murres' death flight might be caused by a cyclical failure in their food supply...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Merchant Marine was to be transferred: 1) the Shipping Board, now independent; 2) the Hydrographic Office and Naval Observatory, from the Navy; 3) Inland Waterways Corp. (Mississippi barge line) from the War Department...