Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City was only sideswiped by the storm as it pounded northwest across the State. The Sandy Hook light was blown out and the Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...
...huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been dredged straight out into Biscayne...
...Originally the dam was to be 300 ft. high with a hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also put on the public works program was a 9-ft. channel for the Upper Mississippi and a $22,700,000 flood control-irrigation project on the North Platte near Casper...
...Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...
...more to see than this!" Next day, as the Conference quietly disintegrated rather than adjourned, there was even less to see. White-mustached Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung had hopped into a plane and gone back to Rome. Knife-featured French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet had caught a Channel boat for Paris, remarking politely not upon the fact that the Conference statesmen had almost completely disagreed, but instead that, "we have achieved a perfect comprehension of each others' thoughts." This comprehension had resulted in agreement on just one thing: the Conference, after holding a final plenary session at which...