Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact to assure our back. Now Russia has far-reaching goals; above all, the strengthening of her position in the Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun, and Hitler was still thinking of trying to cross the Channel.] Further, Russia is striving to increase her influence on the Balkans and is striving toward the Persian Gulf. That is also the goal of our foreign policy...
Work was started at Steep Rock. The lake was pumped dry of its 121 billion gallons of water. The Seine river, which fed it, was diverted by digging away 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock for a new channel, and by constructing a system of dams and tunnels. The Canadian Government chipped in $5,200,000 for roads, a railway spur, power lines and a dock at Port Arthur to handle the ore. In 1944, a year after work was started, the first ore came out of the open pits...
Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of doing; the Puerto Rican in New York or San Juan is subject to no more restrictions or compulsions than any other U.S. citizen...
When Tom Blower looks at the sea, every wave seems to be flinging a challenge at him. In 1937 Tom, who is a strapping Nottingham mill hand, answered by swimming the English Channel in 13 hours 29 minutes, the fourth best time on record. That was not enough for Tom. No man had ever swum the Irish Sea; he decided to be the first...
...tried once a month ago, setting out from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, to swim the 25 miles across the North Channel to Scotland. He covered nearly half the distance in seven hours, but then the treacherous currents and high seas forced him to give up. Last week Tom tried again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded...