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Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...Commerce last week, that sapient layman, President Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., pointed out that the Navy's "natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River...
...Royalty what he would not to statesmen, Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This limousine and many another gift did the Duke of Abruzzi bestow...
Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...
Telephones. The Inland Telephone Co. was recently organized in Delaware. Now it is consolidating 26 independent telephone systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota...