Word: piney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belize, Governor Sir John Burdon surveyed his demolished town, pondered abandoning it, building a new city farther back from the bay on a piney ridge. As soon as the Belize river could be cleared of bodies and debris, native inhabitants in small boats started upcountry. Through a fetid atmosphere of stranded, rotting fish, whole families made the journey to escape threatened pestilence and famine in the ruined city. Better, they thought, take a chance in the jungle...
Meanwhile, the Commission's Chief Accountant William V. King was busy at the Piney, Pa. plant of Clarion River Power Co., which the company claimed cost $11,032,816. He recommended that $6,387,731 of this amount be struck out, including such promotion items as $144 for neckties, $4,000 for cigars and dinners. The Clarion company was furious. Seizing upon the Attorney General's New River decision as precedent, it applied for an injunction to prevent the Federal audit at Piney from going into the records as true...
...Piney Point in the Potomac River raced Smith's Island crabbing skiffs- famed Chesapeake workboats whose chugging at all times of day is the characteristic summer sound of the bay. They are light hulls equipped with motors transposed from old automobiles or bought from mail order houses. They raced at surprising speed, with spray streaming over their bows. Capt. Honest Evans won handily with the Rachel Jane, Capt. Ellwood Johnson second in the Esther Ralston...