Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the mosquito capitals of the world, the salt marshes of New Jersey, home of the "swamp eagle," still holds its own. Last week many a newborn Jersey swamp eagle had its first taste of human blood. The donor: Dr. Willem Rudolfs, New Jersey agricultural experiment station researcher...
...taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump from the Indian Archipelago to Port Darwin...
...Where the White House now stands was once called "foggy bottom," a malaria-infested swamp. At President Hoover's request, the Senate last week voted him $60,000 to rid the vicinity of mosquitoes...
City officials were kept busy signing tax warrants. The Board of Trad.; admitted to trading shares in the warrant trust to encourage subscriptions. In all the rushed excitement of getting Chicago out of a financial swamp, the only laggard figure was that of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson who sulkily hesitated to approve an ordinance effecting tax warrant interest rates, necessary to put into operation the distribution machinery...
Citizen Barlow claims that in 1919 he bought swamp acres in what is now the business centre of Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...