Word: channell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than ever slim, boyish and somehow brittle; but his prestige is that of the man who led a peasant and proletarian army to the conquest of half of China (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926). The partial collapse of that avowedly revolutionary movement and its diversion into a moderate and narrower channel resulted, last week, in the whistling of a new tune by Marshal Chiang. Obviously he was bidding for support by the rich merchant class when he said...
Trip. Thirty years ago, the Western Hemisphere became the U. S. That it might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
...British General Staff and was rewarded with the First Lordship of the Admiralty (1917-18). Intensely practical, he soon secured appointment to deal with reconstruction problems as Minister of Transport (1919-21). Since then two industries have engrossed him: Dunlop Rubber, and Imperial Airways Ltd., the veteran cross channel flying firm of whose board he is active Chairman. On rails, on rubber, and on air his high achievements leap and lead...
Ships. For the first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...
...President pressed a button. Tons of briny mud heaved loose in a new 25-foot channel into the Miami, Fla., harbor...