Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oregon Central Military Road Co. received a land grant for one of its roads, the building of which was accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw...
...House conferees for a brief separate meeting, then readmitted them. When the whole committee finally emerged, the conferees announced, with delighted beams, that after nearly six months of drafting, debate and conferences, Congress finally had a tax bill destined soon to become the law of the land...
...First there was the wholesale liquidation of peasants in the process of collectivization of the land. Now it is revealed that collectivization did not render the peasant secure; he is still being purged. No wonder, as the new decree reveals, that 'this artificially creates discontent and wrath and makes many collective farmers uncertain of their position.' No wonder, despite all the discriminations against them, that individual farmers are described as having advantages over many collective farmers. Henceforth it is ordered that members of the collectives must receive at least 60% of the money income of the enterprise...
...Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage of the Long & Short Haul Bill, Government payment of full rates for its traffic on land-grant roads. Reiterating his opposition to a subsidy and his belief that many roads should "go through the wringer," Chairman Wheeler disbanded the conference with an announcement that while it would be possible to put through emergency legislation at this session of Congress, a long-range program...
...into the publishing business, says Author Leaf, runs into so many brothers, sons, cousins and in-laws of the boss that she soon decides that publishing is as inbred as the Jukes family. As for newspaper work, he calculates that some 2,000 girls in New York hope to land one of the 20-odd jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women "knock their nervous systems...