Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition on the part of local interests." And he added a warning: "I call your attention to the simple fact that Canada alone can, if desired, build locks at the Lachine Rapids and at the international sector and thus provide a seaway wholly within Canadian control." A 27-ft. channel from Duluth to the sea (see map) would not mean that luxury liners could dock east of Chicago's Wrigley Building. But 70% of the world's ocean-going cargo tonnage would have access to the Great Lakes. And six U. S. states would be given a maritime...
Splendrous "Sun King" Louis XIV created the de la Trémoïlles hereditary princes and of these Prince Louis was the last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes...
Such were some of the $992,750 emergency grants cited last week in the annual report of Dr. Frederick Paul Keppel, president of Carnegie Corp., to show how Depression has forced Andrew Carnegie's $135,000,000 philanthropy out of its true channel of education. Hard times have not only cut the corporation's funds but have also materially reduced the inflow of new ideas on how and where to spend money. Explained President Keppel: "Those from whom ideas in ordinary times might be expected have been overworked and strained and have had neither the time...
...Graaff knew, moreover, that a vitally important part of his huge contraption, as a scientific instrument, was a 40-ft.-long vacuum tube made of laminated paper. Still unfinished and untested last week, this tube is to bridge the gap between the balls, serve as a channel for the 10,000,000 volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt...
...Bird of Dawning, hove to and deserted. The skipper had gone crazy, faked a hopeless leak and frightened his crew into the boats. Short-handed as they were, the boat's crew of the Blackganntlet turned to and sailed her home, not knowing till they reached mid-Channel whether they were still in the race or not. When the Channel fog lifted under a driving breeze they found they still had a chance. They cracked home lucky winners, luckier still to be alive...