Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party the delegates did not attend was the dedication, week before the conference opened, of a 3,000-acre International Peace Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada. President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings. Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall...
Eight years ago Dentist Charles Arthur Furrow started a rainbow trout fishing club at Bennett Springs. Mo. Two years later he sold the club to the State and with Oilman Frederick Lawrence Bailliere of Tulsa, Okla. bought a new site nine miles northeast of Stoutland on which they began raising rainbow trout commercially. Trout raising proved unprofitable, so they decided to raise goldfish and went in search of a goldfish expert...
...spring and distilled water business in the world and 20% of its revenue comes from this source. It also sup plies electric light, power and natural gas to 80 California communities in two areas. Most important of these areas is the industrial region in Contra Costa County (along the northeast shore of San Francisco Bay) which includes the plants of Johns-Manville, Associated Oil, Union Oil, Hercules Powder, American Smelting & Refining, U. S. Steel, Zellerbach Paper. The other district includes the cities of Santa Cruz (seaside resort), Gilroy, Watsonville, Hollister and San Juan. P. P. S. also owns 21 plants...
...Wife to Caesar, as in her first novel The Ellington Brat, Authoress Mellett places her characters along the Potomac's stormy northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...loan law, 2,477,012; outstanding loans by Veterans' Bureau, $1,247,785,108; 1945 cash value of all certificates less outstanding loans, $2,270,126,367. *Last week the New York Sun discovered that of the 255,452 persons in Mr. Patman's district in Northeast Texas, only 1,659 in 1929 ''stared into the cold white face of a [Federal] income tax blank...