Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivers and on the Panama Canal. He has worked before with both the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army. Awaiting confirmation by the Senate, all he would say about his new job was: "It is possible to control the river, entirely possible. It depends on spending the proper amount of money and on using the proper plans...
...General William J. Behan, aged 87, died last week of heart disease in New Orleans and the South remembered him as a hero, not only of the Confederate Army, but of the White League, which battled the Carpet Baggers on the streets of New Orleans in 1874. His famed Canal Street victory, commemorated now by a marble shaft, put an end to the evils of Reconstruction in New Orleans, driving out the northern Republicans and their Negro tools. Major General Behan was elected Mayor of New Orleans in 1882 and, having rid his city of the Carpet-Bag type...
Last week the Panama Canal was blown up in the imaginations of U. S. Army and Navy men. With the U. S. battle fleet at far-away Hawaii, an enemy fleet was thought to be snoring up the Atlantic Coast to attack Hampton Roads. The U. S. Joint Army and Navy Board, having perfected plans for just such an emergency, proceeded with a rapid, potent mobilization of coast defense units at the mouth of Chesapeake...
...world's greatest iron ore and iron & steel working region, last week, were cargoes of pig iron brought by ships from England. Iron Age magazine believed that more such iron will be shipped regularly to Great Lakes ports on British ships small enough to go through the Welland Canal (in Canada, near Niagara Falls...
...mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation of the "extortionate" Flood Control Bill...