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Navy V. Columbia- On Manhattan's Harlem River, glazed with iridescent oil spots but for once free of driftwood, two crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water...
...shells began leaving the Newell and Weld boathouses at 2.15 o'clock and paddled downstream to the Western Avenue Bridge where they took up their positions. By 2.45 o'clock the last dormitory crews had fallen into the rear ranks of the Freshman eights. Just as the signal to proceed up the river was given, the Lowell House eight emerged from behind the masonry of the Western Avenue Bridge arrived in uniform striped jersies, derbies, and beards. Its paraphernalia had been lowered from the bridge by an accomplice who employed a Phillips Brooks House clothing drive bag for the purpose...
...canyon, to the dam site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power to operate all machinery must be led in from 200 miles away in California...
Unlikely to forget the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is Jacob Leonard Replogle, potent retired U. S. steelmaker. The direct result of the flood upon 13-year-old Master Replogle was that he was carried several miles downstream, clinging to the onetime roof of his onetime home. The indirect result was that, his family penniless, he entered the steel industry as an office boy for Cambria Steel. Rapidly he climbed, his invention of a thread-rolling machine giving him additional impetus. In 1916, a director and member of the executive committee, he was instrumental in selling Cambria's control...
During the afternoon row, the crews continued their work on racing starts and varied strokes. They went downstream three and one half miles but stopped short of the railway bridge...