Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know, I offered jobs to Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways, and to E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to come over here to reorganize our railways for us, but of course I made it plain that it was only a joke...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
...Thus ends, by friendly agreement, an episode which caused an amount of comment all out of proportion to the plain business involved...
There seems to be no death for unrestrained publicity. We can only rejoice in our simplicity and be glad that we are plain. The day that we attain fame and fortune is to be feared and dreaded. May we forever be humble folk who can call our lives...
...should be sweeping, i.e., should include not only the shipbuilding companies and their activities which have shocked the President, but should extend also to lobbies, carried on by employes of church organizations and of fanatic pacifists' machines which do not make plain the sources of their funds or prove their freedom from relationship with radical alien internationals or with foreign inspired propaganda intended to keep the U. S. in various states of coma in its various relations and defenses...