Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course down to the Gulf at Port Inglis. Total length of the canal: 200 miles, including the sea approaches, twice that of Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida's will be a sea level canal (like Suez), not a lock canal (like Panama). It was estimated a lock canal...
...cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
...just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard the British destroyer Montrose. Of the five kings attending the funeral only two, Carol of Rumania and Boris of Bulgaria, were ferried across the Channel on a British destroyer; in addition they both received the honor of an escort of two more British destroyers...
...Wander Bird" returned to Boston the day before Christmas having weathered the phenomenally heavy storms which ravaged shipping in the North Sea and the English Channel in late September and October. "We may, probably will, see far bigger seas off the Horn than we did then", the Skipper prophesied when asked if he did not consider this voyage hazardous, "but unless I was convinced that we'll have a far easier time with Cape Stiff than we did between Stockholm and Ushand last Fall, I'd not be going...
...Horn graybeards that hurt a solid little ship, but the stinking steep, toppling walls of water a hundred-mile breeze pushes up in a shallow puddle like the North Sea or Channel...