Word: marshland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given to Rumania, two Great Powers refused to recognize this Allied Deal, namely the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. President Wilson thought the deal too raw because Russia was not represented at the Peace Conference. Bessarabia consists of 17,000 square miles of marshland, forests and rich black earth inhabited by some 3,000,000 Ukrainians, Moldavians, Tartars, Ruthenians, Bulgars, Germans and Jews. In 1920, and several times since, the U. S. S. R. demanded that a plebiscite be held in Bessarabia to settle to whom it shall belong, but up to last week Rumania had always...
...year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
...vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census by airplane, an innovation. He counted 4,000 muskrat huts, estimated they had 20,000 tenants...
Said he: "Already we have more than 3,000,000 acres in States like the Dakotas and Nebraska, which were once the normal breeding grounds for the dm 5, which we are restoring to the natural state of marshland. We have already spent $20,000,000 on the program. Ultimately it will cost about $50,000,000.'' Goal: a minimum of 7,500,000 acres of Federal duck preserves...
...they disturbed my sleep. I couldn't help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...