Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget of the United States Government. In it inveterate collectors of useless information may occasionally turn up the fact that $5,897-38 was spent to send the Marine Band to the G. A. R. encampment; or that an unexpended appropriation of $5,004.25 was reappropriated to buy land for landless California Indians. But the meat of this fat volume is its introduction written by the President and dispatched to Congress as his annual Budget Message...
Finally rescue ships found the Regina Maria, towed her back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...
...Arizona three winters ago. Broadacre City is Wright's answer to urbanization. He believes some-thing like it is already happening in the movement of people out of cities through suburbs to the open country. Its fulfillment would complete this process, giving every citizen his modicum acre of land in communities spread out along the transportation routes. Frank Lloyd Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere...
...transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said Farmer Homer White, first witness to re-turn to Bozeman: "I think the clearing was big enough for the plane to land in but there were a lot of boulders and stumps under the snow...
...supplement rather than compete with welfare bodies already at work among underprivileged children. If a careful study is made, it will be clear that much is now being done. Indeed, perhaps the most valuable service P. B. H. could render would be in persuading the University to open unused land as playing fields...