Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing around Europe which included conferences with Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France in Paris and with President of the Reichsbank Hans Luther in Berlin, whence he boarded the Bremen at Bremen. Seemingly there was to be a transatlantic Norman-Harrison conference. There was a trans-channel conference. But as the Bremen neared Cherbourg the two English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down...
...after ponderous box of dull gold ingots was hauled up from the vaults of the Bank of England last week, rushed across the Channel to Paris, then lowered down, down into the vaults of the Bank of France, buried so deep that above them lies a subterranean lake...
...into the whole drama may be attributed to Director Shumlin. As the fleshy manufacturer, bluffing his way through a merger, Siegfried Rumann is convincingly brutal. He looks and performs not unlike Emil Jannings. He was an officer in the German army during the War, was wounded, acted in The Channel Road, has sung in Manhattan beer halls for a living. The stenographer is played by Hortense Alden (Lysistrata), an ingratiating person with an attractive, chirrupy voice. Eugenie Leontovich, a beautiful lady who came to the U. S. from Russia to dance, turns in an extraordinary piece of acting...
...fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale universities, studied to perfect a suitable system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus no longitudinal draft (a fire and health danger) is created. Engineer George A. Posey adapted Mr. Singstad's method to his 3,545-ft. Oakland Tube...
...southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower southwest, have formed the bases for charted airways...