Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made public an executive order signed ten days earlier by the President while in Panama which, with a $15,000,000 expenditure, started a ten-year, $75,000,000 project to cure droughts on the Great Plains. The project: Planting 100 parallel strips of forest, each 115 ft. wide and spaced a mile apart, which would run 1,000 miles from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle...
Running East, the strike virus spread panic in Minneapolis when 6,000 drivers climbed down off their trucks and began agitating a city-wide strike. Leaping the Mississippi River the infection struck Wisconsin, where 2,000 plumbing fixture workers in the model factory town of Kohler paraded with flags and pictures of President Roosevelt, demanded more pay, shorter hours, union recognition. Swinging South, strike trouble enveloped Houston, Tex., when a stevedore strike cost the lives of three Negroes...
Since the Reichstag Building mysteriously went up in flames soon after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Berlin's vast Kroll Opera House was pressed into service last week by Speaker Göring. In a quarter-mile-wide cordon around it he threw his police and black-jacketed S. S. Storm Troops. Sweating carpenters rushed up a huge banner over the impromptu Reichstag portals: WE FIGHT AND PRAY FOR ADOLF HITLER...
...produced by Heywood Broun two years ago. Retold is the familiar narrative about a young actress who makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky Nelson's ticket taker when he asks her to go back and wait at their hotel...
...roof of the imposing La Prensa building in Buenos Aires' wide Avenida de Mayo is a large siren. Its piercing screech, audible for miles, heralds the break of hot news. Long ago a city ordinance was passed forbidding use of the siren and the publishers rarely sound it nowadays. But when some world-shaking event takes place, La Prensa's horn shrills and a Prensa office boy trots downtown to pay the fine before its echo has died away...