Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although congested as never before in the history of the Institution . . . we have been able to maintain the health and discipline of prisoners. . . . It has been impossible to segregate drug addicts from other prisoners, due to our congestion. I would respectfully recommend that some plan for relief of congestion be undertaken. . . ."?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., July...
...Federal Farm Board last week received applications for relief from growers of: mushrooms, plumosus,* grapes...
...Farm relief at any price was hectically sought last week by Rumania's peasant-born Prime Minister, smart, beetle-browed Juliu Maniu, once a farmer himself...
...Weather. Hot dry days continued throughout the land as farmers despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...
...assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines...