Word: channell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruise, 20 days to be spent wholly or partially in roaring airplanes, was announced, last week at London by the veteran cross-channel firm, Imperial Airways...
...Since channel swimming become a practically unknown sport, after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
...after Dr. Logan landed Mrs. Ivy Gill, 24, staggered up Dover beach, gasping "I can't stand." She, also English, had conquered the channel in 15 hours, 9 minutes. A week previous (TIME, Oct. 17) Miss Mercedes Gleitz had churned across the channel after many an unsuccessful effort. Confessions were forthcoming; no questions were asked...