Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred ribbons of forest, each 150 ft. wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked...
Until last week the pride of Ontario reformers was Norman F. ("Red") Ryan, a hulking, 200-lb. Torontonian with little pig eyes and a disarming smile. Red Ryan's highly publicized criminal career first attracted wide attention in 1921. For armed robbery he was sentenced to seven years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and given 14 lashes on the bare back with...
Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...
...southeast of Sandy Hook. The valley was only a few fathoms deeper than its banks for the first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower near the mouth which is 7,500 ft. under the ocean surface. North...
...without interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present rise dates from 1932, bonds as usual leading actual industrial recovery by a wide margin...