Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What's this?" cried he with an expression of disgust. "A bomb on my desk? Juan!" he called to his orderly. "Take this away and throw it in the canal...
...high Government officers returning from "official missions" abroad, the Treasury grants "free entry" through the customs barrier. "Free entry" luggage is passed without inspection at the pier. Many a Congressman during recesses of Congress goes to Panama (wet) for a vacation, pretending to make an official study of the Canal Zone, and thus becomes eligible for "free entry" on return...
...first charge. Among them was the favorite, Easter Hero, 9 to 1, from the stable of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Easter Hero carried 175 pounds. Shortly after the start he swung gracefully into the lead. Over Becher's Brook, over Valentine's Brook, around the treacherous canal turn he swung, taking the leaps with daring ease. On and on to what seemed to be sure victory. But the turf was soggy from two days of rain. The field crept closer and closer. At the last hedge but one, Easter Hero and Gregalach jumped together. When they landed Gregalach...
...superintendent of the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach...
Rome Haul is well peopled, but it is rather the story of a canal, and the history of a vivid phase in the development of U.S. civilization. Burdened with no plot or proof, it is engrossing for its otherworld, yet essentially new-world, atmosphere...