Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaches, twice that of Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida's will be a sea level canal (like Suez), not a lock canal (like Panama). It was estimated a lock canal would cost an extra $100,000,000. Finally, to avoid the question of whether the canal could pay for itself, it was decided to make it free to shipping...
...celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface...
...survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged the "groundwork" courses so that every branch of this training will be given in the future, thus permitting men to develop those fields in which they feel weak and to bring their elementary training up to a common level...
...plane of pure comedy and getting unnecessarily mixed up in the complexities of problems that properly lie beyond its scope. Fortunately Miss Claire's charming manner and the excellent acting of Osgood Perkins and the assembled company go far in restoring the play to a more comfortable level...
...honest nor independent, (despite the fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...