Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Weather Bureau reports favorable conditions for weekend sports enthusiasts. Increasing cloudiness will settle over all New England with snow expected to fall over Northern sector today (Fri.) or tonight. The supply of snow around Boston which was heavily crusted last week may be covered with the same blanket of snow that skiers are waiting for up North. However, there is a chance that showers will make the prospects in the Southern part of New England gloomier. The temperature throughout the New England States will drop slightly, but will remain around the twenties during the nights. More snow will...
...Soong; and brother-in-law of Dr. H. H. Kung, famed descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius, who also married a Soong girl. Chiang returned to China to head the Kuomintang Government at Nanking. He was soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most fortunate for the Generalissimo, however, was the assassination at Mukden of the doughtiest fighter among China's War Lords, the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed bibber of tiger's blood and keeper...
Nine months after the Project got under way there were 6,000 on the payroll. Now there are 3,000, of whom 1,200 are writers as distinguished from research workers, office assistants. They receive prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere. Now so highly organized that its officials boast that in a week it can gather the material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused...
...Great Northern, U. S. mill supplying less than 6% of the annual tonnage, will sell at $48 for the first six months...
Ethnological studies relating to the survey of the population were made of Newburyport, Massachusetts; Northern Australia; and the Cameroons in Africa. Studies in physical anthropology included the United States, Europe, Arabia, and Siam...