Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straggler Bailey of North Carolina, Commerce Committee chairman, the neutrality bill's virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
...farmers had little share of prosperity in the years before the crash. Depression deepened the problem, left farmers carrying into it a mortgage debt almost equal to income. In every 1,000 farms during the first six years of depression, 236 were foreclosed. Average value of farm land dropped from $48.52 to $31.16 per acre...
...terms of national wealth and productive capacity, the U. S. had no need to feel a sense of weakness or hopelessness about its land, unless it enjoyed a feeling of weakness or hopelessness. It also...
...year-old Presbyterian Hospital 132-year-old College of Physicans and Surgeons were united on 20 acres of land given by Charitarians Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness and Edward Stephen Harkness...
...touched but unrecognizable. It is the same with Author Prokosch's ponderings: relevant, plausible, portentous and flimsy. Aware of the flimsiness, he attributes it to his material: "No crisis or tragedy [in America] becomes exact. The great struggles do not lie in the individual, they lie in the land, they are tribal and regional, and can't quite be put into words...