Word: putting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painted ship upon a painted ocean is the Ambrose. Until last week she had not moved, except up and down with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a generation in her saloon was for once interrupted, her crew of 14 at last had something to do besides polish brass and blow the siren, as she pointed her blunt prow for a momentous voyage...
Both monopolies Mr. Young would put under strict government regulation. He recommended that, if private enterprise were not to be trusted, then, as an alternative, the U. S. government itself should undertake the external communications monopoly. Existing laws make such mergers illegal; Mr. Young would have them quickly changed...
...elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song of Firewatha in the Land of Many Ha-Has." The Hoover "new patriots" were revealed as patrioteers; erstwhile Hoover advisers (Dr. Work, Horace Mann, James Francis Burke) appeared...
Visible Empire. The seeds of empire, sown the last decade of the last century, first sprouted in 1893 when 160 U. S. Marines were landed for a Hawaiian "revolution." Later the islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire...
...Europe's worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...