Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...
...Senate received last week a document (nearly 11,000 words*) concluding with these words and signed with the big C-flourish of the signature: Calvin Coolidge. It was his expected veto of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
...President, in his penultimate paragraph, said that there were other farm relief measures for which "I wish again to renew my recommendations." But, if any of these measures have names,* the public generally does not know them, and the President is certainly not identified with them as he is, for example, with the Protective Tariff...
Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents. Instead, men shot themselves or each other; threw themselves into the lake [Lake Erie]; poisoned themselves with morphine or raisin jack; or perished of cold, listlessly lost in despair." Late in 1922 smaller brains came to the anatomy rooms. "[Industrial] relief had come; though it was not apparent to the city, we knew that the end was in sight. Hope was restored again in those whose nervous systems had been shattered by defeat." In effect, Dr. Todd is a business prognosticator...