Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...island of Heligoland, former fortified custodian of the Kiel Canal, is in the process of disintegration due to the constant explosions of dynamite under the direction of the French and British who for three years have been destroying the great fortifications implanted in solid rock by the Germans...
...best receiver of music. In speaking of the possible strength to which such sets can be developed, he mentioned the fact that Great Britain built a 19-stage regenerative amplifier in the late war which enabled her to hear the German Navy practicing its signal codes in the Kiel canal, while an ordinary instrument could not hav epicked up a message a half mile away. His points, were demonstrated by a set placed in the room by which he got in touch with stations in cities as far away as New York and Schenectady, in spite of the disturbing influence...
Harold West as Viscount Deeford the young nobleman, who, because of his complete artlessness, is selected by Disraeli to make the purchase of the controlling shares in the Suez Canal, played with appreciation and effectiveness, as did Miss Standing as Lady Reversey, his fiancee...
Toboga Island-the Achilles' heel of Panama Canal. (P. 5.) Minds that list Maraschino, well-known cherry, as a Premier of Russia...
...held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...