Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
Some 41% ( of the Chilean people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...valuable collection of over 35,000 Hawaiian land shells, assembled by the late Reverend Oliver Pomoroy Emerson, of Brookline, has been given to the University Museum of Comparative Zoology, it was learned yesterday...
Emerson was born on the Island of Maui in 1845, of missionary parents. As a boy he began to collect tree snails from the Hawaiian mountain ridges, valleys, and low coastlands. Since his collections were begun, deforestation of the lowlands to create farm and grazing land, and importation of foreign animal and insect posts, have led to the extermination of many of the species...
...lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board went more heaving lines, back & forth skipped the rowboat, and at 6:44 the Queen Mary was snug in her berth, gang planks in position to land her 1,602 passengers. No skipper had ever docked so large a vessel unaided...