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...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...
...Corps ground crew and soared into a spotted sky of blue and white, breaking fog for the return flight to Lakehurst. . . . Very soon the first of the Akron's planes was hooked on and stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland...
...with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
Five or six men plan to hire a cruiser which they will use as a base for inland excursions to industrial plants in the South...
...quarrymen the blast would churn up 1,125,000 tons of limestone, sufficient to supply the blast furnaces of Inland Steel Co. (which controls the stone company) one year. For seismologists the blast would show how much of an effect a 220-ton jolt had on the 6.6 x 1021-ton earth. The knowledge would give them something precise by which to measure the forces underlying all earthquakes...