Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 670 acres have been set aside in the southern part of the city, and a $2,000,000 stadium is already two-thirds erected on the ground; 24 nations and many states will be represented. Citizens have subscribed $3,000,000 for the affair and the state has appropriated $750,000; seven or eight other states will erect buildings costing $75,000 to $150,000, and the three Pacific Coast states are planning a joint exhibit and building costing $1,500,000. Mayor Kendrick announced that 170 organizations of many kinds had already arranged to hold their annual sessions...
...spindles operated in this country, 16,000,000 (43%) are located in southern states, 19,000,000 (51%) in New England, and 2,000,000 (6%) in other states. But actual spindle hours last September were 248 in southern cotton-growing states as compared with only 131 in New England?showing that southern textile mills get much more actual use out of their machinery than is the case in New England, and consequently can operate at much lower costs...
...representative of the Utah Parks Company, Mr. Jones is engaged in developing the natural parks and monuments of southern Utah and northern Arizona, including Zion Park, the northern rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks, the Bryce National Monument, and the Kaibot National Forest Reserve...
Migrations of individuals and capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
According to officials of the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing...