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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Harvard has entered 20 men; Clark College, eight; Holy Cross, nine; Northeastern, 28; Springfield, 20; and New Hampshire, 51. There is no limit to the number of entries a college may make, but only five men from each team will be counted for the team's score. Harvard will be a competitor only for individual honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS COUNTRY MEET TO BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...reduction of the sale of American wares, which are readily identified as such by markings and general appearances--our motor cars, safety razors, electrical devices, typewriters and similar finished manufactures which, sold as they are under trade names, are conspicuously American. Has Europe allowed her supposed enmity to limit her purchase of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Partisanship Cannot Injure Mutual Interests of Great Continents Declares Klein | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points is but elementary to an understanding of the present controversy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR OF THE ROSES | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baden-Baden Bankers | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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