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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midwest's weather was wicked. It rained and blew as the President, after dedicating a monument at Cincinnati, proceeded down the newly-canalized Ohio River. The river steamer Mississippi, especially equipped for the President's ride to Louisville, went aground, forcing him to embark on the less comfortable lighthouse tender Greenbrier. Whipped by enormous winds, the yellow waters rose up into unwonted waves which battered and buffeted the President's craft most disrespectfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wet Week | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway "whenever our Canadian friends have overcome those difficulties that lie in the path." Time: ten years. Cost: "After we have disposed of the electrical power, we could contract the entire construction for less than $200,000,000 divided between the two Governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Addition of 1,000 mi. to the existing 746 mi. of intracoastal canals. Time: less than ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...From Lake Superior came S. 0. S. signals. Henry Ford's lumber barge Lake Frugality and the steamer Chicago were both driven aground. Their crews clambered off unharmed. Lake Frugality's crew debarked on the mainland, but Chicago's crew of 32, less lucky, found themselves on a desolate island. Faced with starvation, seven of them straggled nine miles through a bramble-clogged swamp to an Indian settlement. The Indians peeled off their ice-caked clothing, gave them food, but stolidly refused to try to reach their derelict companions. Not until four days later, when the seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Ever since the much lamented resignation of Professor G. P. Baker, there has been very little constructive theatrical development among students, and as time goes on there seems to be even less chance of there ever being any vigorous development in that field. Of the clubs producing plays, only the Dramatic Club professes to be primarily interested in the theater, but various unfortunate circumstances seem to have prevented them from attaining their goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILLING THE GAP | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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