Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the most graphic dispatch of the week from a very meagrely reported war came from the province of Hopeh, a fertile plain lying almost entirely north of the Yellow River, 550 miles from the main theatre of operations...
...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
...volume. The Krakauer creation, using piano strings for its fundamental tones, has no sounding board and (like the Hammond) imitates other instruments, or invents new tone colors, by electrically mixed overtones. By pushing the proper combination of its ten buttons, it can even be made to sound like a plain piano. It contains a radio and phonograph. Price...
...pressed steadily along the line he announced as he took office: "Our duty is plain. We must do everything in our power to provide as safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with...
Although Oscar Lewis calls his book The Big Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated...