Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours. By bus it can be done in 5 days and 14 hours. By automobile it recently took 4 days 8 hours and 47 minutes. By foot it has been done (in the "Pyle Marathon") in 23 days 21 hours. By boat, through the Panama Canal, it can beautifully and agreeably be accomplished in about 17 days...
...riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street to 72nd Street, where Riverside Drive begins, had already been approved. Construction of the whole was authorized to begin with the New Year and promised in completion for July...
...going to sea with Count Felix Von Luckner during the summer after next, according to the Count's present plans as outlined to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The present plans for the cruise will take approximately ten American university students along with five German men through the Panama Canal to the West Coast, for adventure, the group to enjoy enroute participation in gunning, fishing, and harpooning...
...cruise we shall take the schooner down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Western coast. We shall take harpoon guns, fish lines, nets, rifles, tents for camping on shore, and an awning to spread over the deck, so that we can sleep out on hot nights. If anyone has a good boat, he can bring it along too. We are going in search of adventure, and we shall get some...
...Ceaseless Shuttles weaving the fabric of international goodwill" was what John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society of the U. S., called ships as the new Grace liner Santa Barbara sailed for Havana, the Canal Zone and South America...