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...British Admiralty to 'ware a vast new mine field it was laying, all the way from Kinnaird Head, on Scotland's northeast shoulder, down to join the fields laid earlier off Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover or Kinnaird Head (Moray Firth) entrances, heavily guarded...
Honorary President Emile Martin glared at Miss Wilson's snood and leaped to his feet after her talk to present a resolution damning snoods. Even the fluttered Miss Wilson voted aye. But some observers felt the hairdressers had reaped the whorlwind they had sown...
Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...
From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...
...provide food for the new land, fields of poppies were ploughed under and sown to rice. For raw materials engineers scoured the back country, opened up veins of coal, iron, copper, salt, many small oil wells...