Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker...
...exports, four billions in imports. Of the imports two and one-half billions come in duty free, one and one-half pay tariff. In short, only about 1½% of all U. S. trade is in the form of competing foreign commodities, dribbling over the top of the tariff dam. The dam is important, not because of what comes over it, but because of what it holds out, the domestic prices it impounds and sustains...
...Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...
...pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This is a clear run of nearly four miles without danger to pedestrians who are fenced out of the drive. The Boston-Brookline traffic, it is believed, would be in part deflected from Beacon St, and Commonwealth...
...already contributed about $3,270,000 to the cost of the Basin and its bridges, will pay about $500,000, more as its share of the Cottage Farm Bridge, and is paying about $175,000. per year as its share of the original cost of the Basin and the Dam and for maintenance changes. It therefore seems fair to ask that the drive on the Boston side which would help Cambridge traffic should not be omitted on account of the local clamor against...