Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without a record vote, after two days' debate, a Rivers and Harbors Bill carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways from charging lower rates for long than for short hauls and the Fernald amendment providing for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal had been defeated. (Went to conference.) ¶ The proposal that the U. S. join the World Court came up and was tucked away again with hardly 100 words spoken...
...excursion to Torcello while you are in Venice," he continued. "Torcello is situated on a little group of islands not far away. It is like Venice as a village, a rural Venice, a Venice not built up, as Venice is today, so that you can't see the canal from the house-tops...
...Dardanelles campaign early in 1915 he organized the American Red Cross in Constantinople, and later in the same year organized a group of American and native doctors which accompanied the Turkish army in its attack on the Suez Canal. In 1917 he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the Red Cross in France until he became attached to General Allenby's army, which he accompanied in the victorious campaign which ended in the capture of Jerusalem...
...There is a project in hand to cut a canal between the Rhine and the Danube in Bavaria, called the Ludwigs Kanal. It is expected to be completed in 1932 and will open a navigable watercourse of over 2,500 miles from Rotterdam in Holland to Sulina in Rumania-from the North to the Black Seas...
...Tsar Alexander II. was driving along the bank of the St. Michael Canal wren a young man threw what appeared to be a snowball at the Imperial sledge. The snowball went off with a thundering detonation, the carriage was shattered, two men of the Tsar's escort were killed outright, many were wounded; but Alexander escaped scot-free...