Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
...Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South by the dominion of the Union of South Africa, on the West by the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland and on the North (of course) by Northern Rhodesia which...
...settle a long-standing controversy between fox hunters and quail hunters (who claimed that foxes kill & eat game birds) the Virginia Commission of Game & Inland Fisheries last winter announced that it would examine the stomachs of 500 foxes, settle once & for all the question of just what a fox does eat (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the Commission announced the results of its examination of the first 50 stomachs inspected, all from Virginia foxes killed last winter. Items...
...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...
...Corps ground crew and soared into a spotted sky of blue and white, breaking fog for the return flight to Lakehurst. . . . Very soon the first of the Akron's planes was hooked on and stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland...