Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canal Association with the help of another hard-driving businessman named Roy Miller, he badgered a reluctant Congress into shelling out funds over a period of 40 years, first for a short, 53-mile strip in Louisiana barely 40 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep, later for a 9-ft. channel stretching into Texas. By the time Holland died in 1945 (Miller died in 1946), all but a final 140-mile section in Texas was finished; the waterway was 125 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep along most of its length, completely fitted out with locks, flood-control dams and side...
...comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...
...Inner secrets," says Rose Marie Reid, "create a foundation fit," for a maillot of zephyr wool and Lastex. Catalina's striped suit, resembling a TV channel that needs focusing, is made of lisle cotton, clings to the bodice, has loose, boy-length shorts. Cole of California's "Venus" is a wrapped-to-the-figure white drape. "It's putty in your hands," says Cole, "but on your figure it sculpts you as Pygmalion sculptured Galatea...
...their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke through to form the English Channel and give Britain its freedom. It was 5000 B.C., says Dr. Godwin...
...process of making Britain an island took several thousand years, but by 5000 B.C. (about the time of man's first agriculture, in the Middle East) the English Channel had connected with the North Sea. From then on, no intruder-:plant, animal or human-invaded England by dry land...