Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trolling for sailfish off Cocos Island, Franklin Roosevelt's lure was fought for by two (maybe three) sailfish at once...
Next day he fished for the last time this trip, off Providence Island, historic base of piratical Sir Henry Morgan. Thence the Houston weighed anchor for Pensacola, politics and national problems...
...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...
...English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
Meanwhile, the gold bar was carried in procession through Terschelling, the Dutch fishermen following and cheering, to the house of the burgomaster. Flags went up all over the island. The dredger crew was given an extra issue of gin. Conspicuous among the jubilant Netherlanders was an unromantic representative of Lloyd's, who claimed title to 30% of the gold bar (Billiton Co. and The Netherlands Government will divide the rest) but who remembered that gold bars had been brought up from the Lutine before. Let a strong wind come up before the Karimata finishes work, and in the shallow...