Word: canalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to become an engineer when he watched surveyors laying out the World's Fair of 1893. Son of an Irish policeman, Ed Kelly had been apprenticed to an undertaker. In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal. He went to night school to learn his trade. In 1908 he was made engineer of the commission which laid out the Great Lakes-Mississippi waterway. Mayor until April 1935. he will not give up his presidency of the South Park Board which he has held since 1924. During...
...officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard of seven guest officers, most notably Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, hard-bitten champion of the Navy lighter-than-air program. He it was who fought...
...Jersey coast. Of her crew of seven, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins and two others were killed.) Down with the Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous...
...sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory contiguous to the Panama Canal or important points in the Caribbean to be held by a hostile power. . . . I suppose you know that American trade with Manchukuo has increased since the foundation of the independent state, while Japanese trade has stood still...
...Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until the horses came thundering heavily past the stands the first time around could the dense, shouting mob packed against the rail get a clear idea of how the race was going. Colliery Band went past first, with Remus, Kellsboro Jack and Delaneige running close behind...