Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area is still half-lake, half-swamp; one can leave Tallulah only by train, by boat or by swimming. Even in places where the waters have more nearly sub sided, people find a foot of mud and slime in their houses, or sit on their porches and look out upon water-logged fields where nothing will grow...
...weeks, officials predicted, and the first train would go through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building and trying to operate the Denver & Salt Lake R. R. To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes...
...Moffat wanted to build, now nearly finished, will do the following things: ensure year-round train service, on two tracks, by burrowing under the snow-blockade line of the Continental Divide, replacing 23 miles of 4% grades with six miles of 2% grades; make Denver 44 miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
Frank N. D. Buchman, instigator of "Buchmanism" among the young people of U. S. colleges, last week closed a "house party" of his adepts at Lake Minnewaska. N. Y. H. Alexander Smith, executive secretary of Princeton University and Professor W. B. Harris of the Princeton faculty were there, and great emphasis was given to their presence, for last spring the university authorities had forbidden Mr. Buchman the practice of his system there. The undergraduates were being "unhealthily" treated was the opinion...
...Lake Minnewaska last week there were no restrictions. Young men and women, their hearts welling with religious feeling, talked quietly of confession, guidance, personal work; fortified themselves spiritually for this earthly life...