Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unit of pressure equal to the pressure exerted by a column of mercury 760 mm. (30 in.) in height, at sea level 0° Centigrade...
...monstrous yellow-backed mechanical birds with red-white-and-blue tails, pushing them out on the water, poking them until they roared and soaring away in them high over the coastal glaciers and dizzy ledges where only little auks can live. Commander Richard E. Byrd of the naval aviation unit accompanying Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, June 22 et seq.) reported his trial flights entirely satisfactory. The party only waited for heavy fogs to lift before taking off for Axel Heiburg Land, where the first advance air base was to be made...
Politics. Mr. Andrews had announced his intention of abolishing the 48 state enforcement districts and replacing them with 22 districts coinciding with Federal Judicial districts. This, of course, badly disturbed arrangements for patronage in the Prohibition unit. Senators protested. A few changes were made in the districting. Indiana was grouped in a district with northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin instead of with Michigan (Senator James E. Watson protesting successfully), Virginia was grouped with West Virginia instead of with Maryland (C. Bascom Slemp protesting successfully...
Prohibition unit...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...