Word: semidesert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other end of the Atlantic seaboard. Day after the S. S. Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...
...week had to choose between an estimable old gentleman and a dubious ditch. The ditch was the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal across Florida, on which President Roosevelt has already spent $5,400,000 of relief funds and which truck and fruit farmers fear may turn lower Florida into a semidesert (TIME, Feb. 17). The old gentleman was Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, who has been in the Senate longer than any other member, except Idaho's Borah and South Carolina's Smith...
...time of his election, 43 of his 63 years had been spent in the pursuit of politics, for by special dispensation (known in Texas as "removal of disabilities") he ran for county attorney at the age of 20. For 29 years he had represented in Congress a strip of semidesert along the Rio Grande border...
...State of Western Australia is a vast semidesert as big as Western Europe. Separating it from the rest of Australia are 800 miles of uninhabited country. Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they produce more than one fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia...