Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building of artificial ponds, roads, artificial bridges and artificial beaches and the planting of introduced trees and shrubs is not conservation," claimed Fernald, "for it upsets the natural equilibrium which had become established long before man, proud of a supposed resemblance to God, came to ruin...
Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...
...headwaters under their own power; 2) four "lifts," somewhat similar to ship locks, for fish who prefer a free ride up. For several years controversy has raged between Government engineers, who said the system would work, and Oregon's $10,000,000 salmon industry, which faced ruin if it failed. This spring Bonneville's fish ladders were put to work. Above white "flash-boards" set beneath the shallow exits of the ladders, Government agents poised themselves to count the salmon that swam past in the annual spring...
Geologically, the situation is simple. Oil is taken out of off-shore pools by building piers or artificial islands and drilling downward (which is likely to ruin the beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls virtually all of Huntington Beach and a good share of Long Beach and Wilmington Beach. Standard is as much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank...
...seemed last week that U. S. business was at a crossroads. With minor fluctuations, indices remained static at about the same level as the last four or five weeks. Economists wondered whether this was the basement of the Roosevelt Recession or only a landing on the escalator to ruin. As the President's inflationary plans for reviving business gave stocks and commodities a brisk rally, there were champions for both sides of the question...