Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Florida boom but the general opening-up of the southeastern states which is now going on. In the East, the roads did quite well with the exception of the anthracite carriers. Western roads, however, continued to lag behind, partly as a result of competition with the Panama Canal, partly from low freight rates...
Waterways. "The Government made an agreement during the War to take over the Cape Cod canal, under which the owners made valuable concessions. This pledged faith of the Government ought to be redeemed...
...other main fields are under consideration. One is the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence, including the Erie canal. This includes stabilizing the lake level, and is both a waterway and power project. A joint commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...
...North Carolinian. In 1901 he was graduated from West Point, second in a class of 142. As an Engineer officer he served in the Philippines, at Mobile on the Rivers and Harbors Commission, at New Orleans during the severe floods of 1912 and 1913, and on the Panama Canal. He went overseas with the A. E. F. and became Chief of Staff of the 77th Division. In 1921 he was made Director of Public Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia, a post which carried with it the duties of Chief Military Aide to the President. But he made...
...front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...