Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years no enemy could reach island Venice by land. Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...
...ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe's biggest garage to take in the automobiles that will enter roadless Venice by its only motor entrance. Some Venetians muttered that it was significant that...
...reason for the fall in prices is that China and India have ceased hoarding silver. For years all the hard-working millions of India and China, when they wanted to lay something by, tucked a piece of silver into the thatched roofs or the mud walls of their houses. In India the people are said to have five billion ounces of silver quietly tucked away and in China another three billion ounces. When the price of silver goes down they normally buy and hoard more, but today they are too poor to buy at any price. The big reason that...
...cherry and magnolia trees in bloom. With her rode Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Federal Farm Board chairman, and President Roosevelt's Secretary Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Roosevelt's horse slid on the muddy bridlepath, fell to its knees. Mrs. Roosevelt was thrown into a mud puddle. Muddied but unhurt, she remounted, rode on until...
...government of France, which performed lip service to the League of Nations narcotics limitation conventions of 1925 and 1931 and passed laws prohibiting cultivation, manufacture or transportation of hashish (Indian hemp) in French Syria. But nothing was said about possession. Syrians can and frequently do turn their mud-walled houses into warehouses for smuggled dope...