Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be going too far, that military appropriations had already been cut to the bone. For the present year, the appropriation is $341,000,000, of which $262,000,000 is strictly military, $70,000,000 is for rivers and harbors and nearly $9,000,000 for the Panama Canal. If the cut comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said...
...high record for all time. In June, 1923, stocks fell 65,000,000 gallons, and in June, 1924, about 51,000,000 gallons. This year the California producers, heavily loaded still with stocks of crude oil, have been freely refining it and sending it East via the Panama Canal. Thus a price-cutting war has been precipitated all over the country. In such a contest, low cost marketers such as the long-established Standard Oil companies, enjoy a great advantage over high-cost marketers such as Sinclair, Pure Oil or Pan-American...
...Jules Jaeger Satisse thought of another scheme to end Britain's "splendid isolation," and this he sent to the Calais authorities. His plan calls for the building of two double-deck piers, each 261/4 miles long, from France to England. Between the two piers is to be a canal 300 metres wide to enable fast ships to cross in smooth water. The cost of the project was estimated at about...
...delivery from incoming steamers. Meantime the ships-the Kansas, the Siberian Prince and the Menelaus- were crowding on steam to reach New York on the closing July date with their cargo of 6,500 tons of crude rubber. They had come from Singapore via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and during the closing days of July were racing across the Atlantic while the impatient brokers and "short-sellers" figuratively paced the New York docks in anxiety. Messages on the radio urged them frantically on. The Menelaus docked in Boston July 28, safely within the time set, and thus reached...
...small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace; $4,300 for Man Seated by a Stream, "undoubtedly the most expensive man," said the London Evening News, "who ever sat by a stream...