The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, Volume 12World Review Company, 1907 |
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... produced sixteen oranges . These sixteen golden globes and their immediate succes- As a matter of fact in the period sors produced results comparable only in extending from 1840 to 1870 the orange value to the famous discovery of ...
... produced sixteen oranges . These sixteen golden globes and their immediate succes- As a matter of fact in the period sors produced results comparable only in extending from 1840 to 1870 the orange value to the famous discovery of ...
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... produced by the com- bination of equal parts of cyanide of potassium and sulphuric acid and water . Aside from its purely material and financial aspects , the results in dollars and cents , it may be truly said of the orange industry ...
... produced by the com- bination of equal parts of cyanide of potassium and sulphuric acid and water . Aside from its purely material and financial aspects , the results in dollars and cents , it may be truly said of the orange industry ...
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... produces seventy - five per cent of the merchandise exports of the United States . It has sixteen thou- sand miles of navigable waters . Lyman E. Cooley , the well - known Chicago engi- neer , says if the streams of the valley were ...
... produces seventy - five per cent of the merchandise exports of the United States . It has sixteen thou- sand miles of navigable waters . Lyman E. Cooley , the well - known Chicago engi- neer , says if the streams of the valley were ...
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... produce one bunch of bananas . The stalk is then cut down and a new one , or several , will spring up from the roots , and will bear in the same length of time . Thus a banana plantation that is carefully looked after will produce a ...
... produce one bunch of bananas . The stalk is then cut down and a new one , or several , will spring up from the roots , and will bear in the same length of time . Thus a banana plantation that is carefully looked after will produce a ...
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... produced in one year . Cattle - raising is another profitable line in which to engage . Railroads are needed and concessions are casy to obtain . It is the undeveloped country that offers the best opportunity for the man of modest means ...
... produced in one year . Cattle - raising is another profitable line in which to engage . Railroads are needed and concessions are casy to obtain . It is the undeveloped country that offers the best opportunity for the man of modest means ...
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Page 194 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 455 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Page 322 - I knew that you could endure hunger and thirst and all the hardships of war. I knew that you loved the land of your nativity, and that, like ourselves, you had to defend all that is most dear to man. But you surpass my hopes. I have found in you, united to these qualities, that noble enthusiasm which impels to great deeds.
Page 434 - States; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign state, and domiciled therein, is in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, or order, or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect whereof depend upon the law of nations; or unless it is necessary to bring the prisoner into court to testify.
Page 356 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to Its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any Insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental...
Page 427 - New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 47 - States army, to be known by the name and style of the National' Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,' with a board of managers consisting of the President of the United States...
Page 13 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 223 - The decision was carried by 1,894 votes against 1,037. On the day following this resolution, Mr. Runciman announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decided to apply by proclamation the provisions of the Munitions of War Act for the settlement of the difference.
Page 121 - Kongo have been subjected to inhuman treatment of a character that should claim the attention and excite the compassion of the people of the United States: Therefore, be it Resolved , That the...