Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he might make ten bales. That same morning another farmer had talked to Mr. Craig, had said that not a single bale of cotton would grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people of the flood area in Louisiana are as luckless as would be the officeworkers of Manhattan should an earthquake topple the skyscrapers into lower Broadway...
...emergency loan-relief system to function; and a growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area is still half-lake, half-swamp; one can leave Tallulah only by train, by boat or by swimming. Even in places where the waters have more nearly sub sided, people find a foot of mud and slime in their houses, or sit on their porches and look...
...born in Hawaii have as yet reached voting age. In 1925, for example, there were less than 2,000 registered Japanese voters. On the other hand, however, there are some 60,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese in the Islands, and as they reach voting age they will constitute a considerable portion of the Islands' voting strength. In any consideration of the situation in Hawaii, it must be remembered that a relatively few Caucasian families, descendants of missionaries and traders who came to the Islands long before the arrival of U. S. dominion, control most of the Island wealth. The Islands...
...only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...
...Germany, cameras clicked at the cause of a greyish-green hue covering the landscape, recorded huge spots on the portion of the sun remaining visible from that angle...