Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already in desperate financial straits, Chicago last week found itself confronted with what amounts to a fine of $176,000,000 as a penalty for diverting much water from Lake Michigan to flush its sewers. In accordance with a U. S. Supreme Court judgment last January that Chicago's...
1) Graduated reduction of water diverted from the present rate of 8,500 to 1,500 cu. ft. per sec. in nine years.
2) Simultaneous construction by Chicago of sewage disposal plants estimated to cost $176,000,000.
3) Putting Chicago "on probation" during this period, with semi-annual reports to the Supreme Court. Implied was the possibility of the Court's holding Chicago in contempt if it failed to observe its probation.
A main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico is Laredo," Tex. Last week the portal was slammed shut by the removal of the Mexican consulate. Reason: Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had attempted to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime President of Mexico, on a...