Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permission to operate an amphibian service between Lake Hopatcong, popular resort, and New York. Last week leaders of the aviation industry, no less than Mr. Morgan, were astounded, then indignant to learn that permission was refused; moreover, that aircraft "will not be permitted to land on any New Jersey inland waters...
Four hours later the sun shone peaceful and bright on a ruined city. The hurricane, tearing inland across the island broke its force against the rugged mountains separating Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic from French-speaking Haiti. In Santo Domingo city 1,500 were killed, 5,000 were injured, 30,000 homeless and destitute. Dapper General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who has only been president of the Dominican Republic 19 days found the presidential palace crashing about his ears. Almost before the wind stopped whistling he was in the streets directing army and police relief operations. To Washington he sent a pathetic...
...with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
...unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas Q. Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp. The War Secretary would begin his 3,000-mi. excursion at Minneapolis aboard a small river boat and cruise rapidly down through the six engineering districts of the Mississippi. Problem No. 1: Should a gft. channel be dug north from St. Louis to Minneapolis? Later on Secretary Hurley...
...story would not hush. In Parahyba city enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...