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...unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas Q. Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp. The War Secretary would begin his 3,000-mi. excursion at Minneapolis aboard a small river boat and cruise rapidly down through the six engineering districts of the Mississippi. Problem No. 1: Should a gft. channel be dug north from St. Louis to Minneapolis? Later on Secretary Hurley...
...story would not hush. In Parahyba city enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...
...estimates for the present fiscal year are $4,203,254,457 as compared with actual expenditures for the last fiscal year of $3,994,152,487 or an increase of $209,101,970, being an in crease of 5%. ... The largest increases are for the speeding up of buildings, inland waterways and public works to assist in unemployment, together with increased relief of veterans...
...what he may have testified to, that he was now trying to tell the truth as he understood it. In April Mr. Campbell had said that on Jan. 2 he told President Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem that Youngstown was free to negotiate with Bethlehem because a pending Youngstown-Inland Steel Co. merger had been called off. As a matter of fact, the Youngstown-Inland merger was not officially abandoned until...
...Improving the existing intercoastal waterways, such as that which makes it possible to barge from Manhattan to Beaufort, N. C., without entering the ocean and that which traverses most of Florida's length. When the whole project is finished, barges may travel inland from Beaufort to Sioux City, a journey of nearly...