Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from...
...Raising main-stream levees two feet and widening them from eight feet thick to twelve-$7,700,000 (total authorization...
...Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...
...Consolidated Gas waited. Their company is the second largest public utility in the country. Only American Telephone & Telegraph surpasses it. It owns all of the capital stock of the New York Edison Co., one of the two largest electric operating units in the U. S. With its dozen main subsidiaries it supplies the 5,000,000 people of New York City, boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and a large section of adjoining Westchester County with practically all their gas and electricity...
...main facts about Joie Ray are well known. He has blond hair and has spent most of his life driving a taxicab in Chicago. His nickname is Chesty because he usually announces that he is going to win and tells what his time will be. He is the best prophet among runners. He is the only American who has run the mile in competition under 4:20 more than six times. He holds with Paavo Nurmi the world's indoor mile record. Last month when he finished third in the Boston marathon (TIME, April 30) his first long distance...