Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes found to his liking when the administration of Puerto Rico was shifted from the War to the Interior Department four years ago. It was a statute, incorporated by Congress in the Island's first Organic Act (dating from the trust-fearing days of 1900) and reincorporated in the present Organic Act (1917), limiting the amount of land any corporation could own for agricultural purposes to 500 acres. Crusty Mr. Ickes well knew that few of Puerto Rico's sugar companies own less than 500 acres. He demanded that island...
...interior, British armored cars rolled over rocky brown hills searching for Oozlebarts* (armed bands of Arabs...
Neutral military experts deduced from the information available that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers...
...Opening the first Breslau Gymnastic-Sport Festival last week, Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced: "Sport is a battle-and where there is a battle there are wounds and victims. Hitler's Germany, therefore, as the first country in the world, has created a fund of 100,000 marks yearly to provide for injured athletes...
...unknown reason, the famed geysers of Yellowstone Park in recent months have acted up. Eruption schedules have been disrupted. Old Faithful spat its steam to a record height of 223 ft. But according to a U. S. Department of Interior report last month (TIME, July 4), Old Faithful was still true to its name: it still blew off for five minutes every hour, like clockwork...