Most people had to make temporary houses out of cloth.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

For many years, people had dreamed of building a canal across Central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

She says they look for people who have had some work experience, speak some English and want to experience another culture.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

President Buchanan had promised the people of Kansas that they would have a fair chance to vote on their constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Some Americans had trouble understanding the economic reason why food had to be destroyed so people could have enough to eat.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Other people quickly traveled to the area of the great Klondike River where the three had made the discovery.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

He said the same right had been given to people in New Mexico and Utah by the compromise of eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

People did not object to making young children work long hours, in places that had bad air and bad light.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Many people paid the money to send telegrams to their families back home to say they had arrived safely in Skagway.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

The battle of Shiloh had brought home to the American people both of the North and South the horror of war.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Then many people began to say that Post was nothing more than an airplane driver because he had no real education.

VOA: special.2009.03.18