Word: inlander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aborigines in canoes, using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over the head, stick them through the heart. Down to St. Louis go the skins to be sold at auction by the Government. Last week the U. S. auctioned off some 15,000 skins, collected $282,640. Of this, 15% will be paid...
...missionary reached Shanghai last week from the flooded region and reported the creation of a great shallow inland sea, 200 miles long, yellow and endless to the horizon...
...While Mrs. Hoover was busy in Virginia, President Hoover was being remembered in his native Iowa. At Dubuque there was great ceremony as the world's largest twin-screw towboat was named Herbert Hoover by Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn, wife of the head of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government-owned barge line. Driven by Diesel motors, the vessel will be able to move a 10,000-ton tow 4 m.p.h. upstream. After trials the Herbert Hoover will go to New Orleans, its home port, and ply between there and St. Louis...
...Meknes, in inland Morocco, a bored French sergeant marched a platoon through the white deserted streets before dawn one day last week, posted his men at strategic street corners. The men lit cigarets and waited...
...Inland...