Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time will be allowed in Plymouth to see Plymouth Rock, a fine reconstruction of the original Pilgrim settlement, and the Mayflower exact reconstruction of the original ship). The tour will also Plymouth museum, and the old cemetery; if there is time, will continue to the Cape Cod Canal...
Swimming Lesson. As the hunt for prisoners continued, the Rangers found two Viet Cong youths, 15 and 19, hiding in a canal. The elder carried a packet of Communist songbooks and a picture of North Viet Nam's Red Leader Ho Chi Minh. The Rangers were in no mood for a kid-glove interrogation of the prisoners; only last spring a Ranger camp had been sacked by the Viet Cong and a number of Ranger wives and children killed. The older boy was pinned to the ground and -as the Rangers call it-"taken for a swim...
...valuable assets which are carried on our balance sheet at a very nominal figure." Among them: 48.3% of the stock of New Orleans' South Coast Corp., which owns 89 square miles of Louisiana sugar land including 4,000 acres of potential industrial sites along the new Houma Canal to the Gulf of Mexico...
...native ocean the sea lamprey is not particularly numerous, but ever since it appeared in Lake Erie in 1921, having worked its way up the Welland Canal past Niagara Falls, the repulsive eellike creature has been swarming in the lakes. With its round, suckerlike mouth lined with concentric rows of small, sharp teeth, it makes its living by attaching itself to the side of an unlucky fish. Its teeth rasp a hole; its powerful saliva corrodes the fish's flesh and keeps its blood flowing freely. Many fish die of a single lamprey attack...
...half a century, West Germany's Demag Corp. has hustled the world over, selling steel mills and mining machines, bridges and boilers, cranes and canal diggers. In the process, Demag has grown into Europe's biggest manufacturer of heavy machinery. Last year Demag's sales in 97 countries totaled $250 million, and one-third of the world's rolled steel is now churned out by Demag-made mills. In ironic tribute to the company's size-and the fact that it has never made weapons-Germans call it "Krupp without teeth...