Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first step upward is the new nineteen million dollar canal which connects the Mississippi with the Gulf and opens the inner harbor and some hundred thousand vacant aces of adjacent harbor land to ocean going vessels. Curiously enough the project originated more than a hundred years ago in the epidemic of artificial waterways which produced the Eric canal and several others less famous in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Then as now there was heed of increased facilities; then because the railroads were not yet in existence--now because the increased costs, embargoes and the like, have brown them into...
...Orleans canal the only result of the growth of shipping. The same dissatisfaction which indirectly brought that about has so augmented coastwise shipping, particularly Pacific, Atlantic, transportation by way of Panama, that a second canal connecting the two oceans was seriously discussed in a Cabinet meeting few days ago. With Panama traffic quadruped since 1914 and the fruit growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within...
Thousand foot locks and a necessary depth of thirty to forty-five feet have not simplified canal building in the last century. But when governments, state or national, consider it profitable to appropriate millions to such purposes it seems that some optimists still have hopes of riches from a merchant marine, be it American or European...
...lectures by Dr. A. H. Rice '98, of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Anthropology. 1. Physical Outlines of South America. 2. Historical. 3. Bogota. 4. The North West Amazon's Valley. 5. The Great Rio Negro. 6. The Casiquiare Canal. Fridays and Tuesdays at 5.00 P. M., beginning Friday, December...
...There is a barrier between Lake Ontario and the sea and the St. Lawrence project means the removal of that barrier. The Wellend Canal, now nearing completion, will remove the barrier at Niagara Falls. From Lake Ontario to Montreal is a distance of 182 miles. Between Lake Ontario and Gallop Island, a distance of 68 miles, there is now a channel more than 30 feet deep with a minimum width of 500 feet. Therefore, there is only a distance of 114 miles involved in the improvement. But in this 114 miles, there is now at different points about 68 miles...