Word: lande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government reservation; 2? postage for Queens County, N. Y.; a five-year extension to the time-limit (Jan. 2, 1940) for War veterans' compensation claims; permission to the Atlantic Coast States to make compacts regulating fishing; a bill turning over to Nevada twelve square miles of U. S. land near Boulder...
...April 1938 the name of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan was on every front page in the land. His expulsion from his post as TVA chairman by President Roosevelt brought the cry from New Hampshire's Senator Bridges, "This is an American Dreyfus case." But by last week most U. S. citizens had forgotten the tall, slant-jawed "Bald Eagle" of Yellow Springs, Ohio, were surprised to learn he was still in there fighting...
...Poverty-stricken migrants, chiefly from Oklahoma (thus "Okies"), to California's promised land, where they worked as itinerant harvest hands, lived in filthy squatters' camps. The name is now applied to all refugee workers from the Southwest and Midwest dustbowls. For further information on California's migrant workers' woes and big land-grabbing agriculturists, see Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Little, Brown, $2.50), out last month...
...Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has rummaged around the islands, looking for traces of Mongolian wanderers. First great evidence for his theory turned up in 1931, when, on the island of Kodiak, he discovered a nest of long-headed skulls remarkably similar to those of Algonquin Indians. Since the longheads bore no resemblance to the roundheaded Eskimos...
...load in Botwood, Newfoundland and Montreal, glided into Port Washington, L. I. If her speed and payload had lagged behind the Clippers', Britain could console herself that no nation could dispute her No. 2 rank in the North Atlantic. Air France, which also has a treaty right to land transatlantic mail and passengers in the U. S., is still in the survey stage. When Imperial shakes down, the Caribou and her sistership Cabot will carry mail, no passengers, each week between the U. S. and Britain. Pan American once carried 27 passengers, 791 lb. of mail to Europe...