Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell of the Army Engineers arrived in Florida to begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would...
...trouble was that no sooner had Lieut. Colonel Somervell told Florida what was going to happen than northern Florida began to rejoice and southern Florida to complain. Tampa growled because it feared it would lose its pre-eminence as Florida's west coast port, but Tampa's growls were hardly heard in the louder protests of fruit and vegetable growers south of the canal route...
...does it happen that it isn't a PWA project...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...
...months ago when Columbia University announced that Dr. Hartman had invented a tooth desensitizer which prevented pain while the dentist drilled to prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed by what might happen to his professional reputation, obdurately refused to answer a multitude of pleas which dentists made to him for his preparation and method (TIME...