Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced in October, is to straighten the present sharp curve of the river opposite Soldiers Field and to put a bridge across the new bed. This bridge will be built on the dry land on the Boston side of the projection formed by the curve and the channel dug under it after the bridge is completed...
...MacDonald must feel confident that this time he and Mr. Roosevelt know each other's minds without possibility of misunderstanding. Last week Ambassador Davis was said to have brought Scot MacDonald a personal letter written in longhand by the President. After chatting at Downing Street, he crossed the Channel to Paris, dropped in on Premier Edouard Daladier who also blames the President for the wreck of the London Conference, and sought to soothe the Frenchman with a cheery verbal message from Mr. Roosevelt. These chores done, Mr. Davis proceeded to sit in at Paris on disarmament parleys with British...
...retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend has tried a coup of his own; he has stolen a diamond necklace. Oliver attempts to return it and fails. Murder, pursuit by an army plane over the channel, a suicide, an other death perjury and an orthodox Hollywood ending with an unusually humorous last line by Mrs. Ropkins; it is wholesome unadulterated melodrama...
...Imperial Airways was not founded until several years after the War-1924, I believe. It was an amalgamation of English lines, including Scott-Paine's own Supermarine Airways. running from Southampton to the Channel Islands and Havre. During the War Scott-Paine built Supermarine airplanes and made lots of money...
Large allotments of the last month included $14,153,108 to re-employ 8,000 men making a 6-ft. channel in the Missouri River for 387 mi. from Kansas City up to Sioux City; $63,000,000 for a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River at Grand Coulee; $22,700,000 for a reclamation project near Casper, Wyo.; $11,500,000 for dredging a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi...