Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oppressive forces of capitalism have won another victory over the defenders of man's independence, and that in the enemy's own country. For the government of Soviet Russia has begun negotiations with Henry Ford looking towards the establishment of a Ford factory in the land of the Bolsheviks. To be sure, it is only after the Soviets had tried to produce tractors on their own account from-pirated plans, but when these were discovered to cost six times as much as American product and in addition failed to run, they capitulated to the rival system...
Herein lies the fundamental, the only problem that confronts reformers. The crying need is for new cushions rather than new chapels. However deepseated this evil has become, prompt action may yet recall daily morning worship from the land of the "has beens." Salvation hangs in the balance...
...solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...
Hands at Lakehurst waved goodby at her and for almost a day she was seen no more from land. Her wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles...
Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, is yeasting to explode again. Already it has drooled a small land mass into the adjacent water. At any time it may blow...