Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Հատոր 43The Union, 1916 |
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... Ship clearances - 674 Silk goods , duty on . 542 Stamp tax ---- 414 Steamers , North American ... . 414 Stock fair . 138 Stock , tariff rates on , reduced_ . 278 Tobacco plantations _---- 278 Tramway , commercial electric___ . 278 ...
... Ship clearances - 674 Silk goods , duty on . 542 Stamp tax ---- 414 Steamers , North American ... . 414 Stock fair . 138 Stock , tariff rates on , reduced_ . 278 Tobacco plantations _---- 278 Tramway , commercial electric___ . 278 ...
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... for transportation to world markets . The background depicts the class of ships engaged in the lumber trade . More capital could greatly develop this important industry . NAVIGATION ON SOUTH AMERICAN RIVERS . 17 changing views of.
... for transportation to world markets . The background depicts the class of ships engaged in the lumber trade . More capital could greatly develop this important industry . NAVIGATION ON SOUTH AMERICAN RIVERS . 17 changing views of.
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... here is about 30 miles wide and up and down the great watercourse pass the ships of all nations . Colonia is also connected with Montevideo by rail , a distance of 150 miles . SOME OF THE UPRIVER FLEET AT PARA . Literally hundreds.
... here is about 30 miles wide and up and down the great watercourse pass the ships of all nations . Colonia is also connected with Montevideo by rail , a distance of 150 miles . SOME OF THE UPRIVER FLEET AT PARA . Literally hundreds.
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... ships ! New York to Corumba with only two changes ! How many readers not in close touch with ships and shipping can ... ship amid the pulsating activities of a great metropolis and , without change of vessels , dis- embark more than ...
... ships ! New York to Corumba with only two changes ! How many readers not in close touch with ships and shipping can ... ship amid the pulsating activities of a great metropolis and , without change of vessels , dis- embark more than ...
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... ship was compelled to drift ; we moved northwestward in the Atlantic at the rate of four miles per hour , but upon striking the outflowing Amazon the course was soon altered , although no appreciable change in the movement of the sea ...
... ship was compelled to drift ; we moved northwestward in the Atlantic at the rate of four miles per hour , but upon striking the outflowing Amazon the course was soon altered , although no appreciable change in the movement of the sea ...
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Էջ 609 - To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
Էջ 336 - the zone of land and land under water of the width of 10 miles extending to the distance of 5 miles on each side of the center line of the route of the canal
Էջ 409 - and carry that light high for the guidance of our own feet. We are not worthy to stand here unless we ourselves be in deed and in truth real democrats and servants of mankind, ready to give our very lives for the freedom and justice and spiritual exaltation of the great Nation which shelters and nurtures us.
Էջ 409 - hut was the cradle of one of the great sons of men, a man of singular, delightful, vital genius, who presently emerged upon the great stage of the Nation's history, gaunt, shy, ungainly, but dominant and majestic, a natural ruler of men. * *
Էջ 291 - common cattle. This strikes me as a good illustration of how little we are able to judge from the ordinary habits of life, on what circumstances, occurring only at long intervals, the rarity or extinction of a species may be determined.
Էջ 291 - India, the Sivatherium. The breed is very true; and a niata bull and cow invariably produce niata calves. A niata bull with a common cow, or the reverse cross, produces offspring having an intermediate character, but with the niata characters strongly displayed; according to
Էջ 409 - rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people through the burning flames of a, struggle from which the Nation emerged, purified as by fire, born anew to a loftier life. After long years of iron effort, and of failure that
Էջ 409 - never seen and understood the language of affairs with the ready ease of one to the manner born; or that nature which seemed in its varied richness to be
Էջ 403 - It is great but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic, disturbing—but wait! The clouds and the sunset, the moonrise and the storm will transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and gray-green mesas, dimly seen, take on the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water.
Էջ 409 - for the right perhaps no man can assist. This strange child of the cabin kept company with invisible things, was born into no intimacy but that of