Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This advertisement was not so incongruous as it seemed at first glance. It was an advertisement of the Fall River Line, whose ships ply through placid Long Island Sound and never far from the New England coast...
Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River to the Raritan across New Jersey...
...high, last week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow a revolt...
...Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf, the fleet shadow of Baba-Jaga, man-eating witch. Meanwhile their more venturesome brethren, scowling pirates of the Aegean and Baltic, forgot their ferocity beneath a vibrant pattern of stars...