Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
Five or six men plan to hire a cruiser which they will use as a base for inland excursions to industrial plants in the South...
Legislative lobbies: 1 all manner of farm relief; 2) inland waterways; 3) protection of organized labor. For years he sponsored a bill to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes but not until he turned the legislation over to Nebraska's Norris did the Senate finally pass it last fortnight...
...snowing on the northern peninsula of Michigan one afternoon last week. At the vast deserted quarries of Inland Lime & Stone Co., 8 mi. from Manistique, a small group of men-Army & Navy observers, men from the Bureau of Mines and the Coast & Geodetic Survey, quarrymen, photographers - huddled under a line of steel freight cars. No other humans should have been within a mile of them. The occasion was dangerous. The military men said that during a heavy explosion it was best to stand on one's toes with the mouth open. The concussion then had less effect...
...quarrymen the blast would churn up 1,125,000 tons of limestone, sufficient to supply the blast furnaces of Inland Steel Co. (which controls the stone company) one year. For seismologists the blast would show how much of an effect a 220-ton jolt had on the 6.6 x 1021-ton earth. The knowledge would give them something precise by which to measure the forces underlying all earthquakes...