Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social doctrines that may or may not be in "Modern Times". True, it is all about factory workers, strikes, red demonstrations, public hospitals, and jails. But if you remember that you are watching lowly-born moderns struggling through today's sea of sorrows, while Mr. Chaplin is doing his level best to scatter your attention over a vast series of ingenious gags, you can also study the differential calculus in the proverbial boiler-factory...
Near Ocala the water level in the limestone is 40 ft. above sea level. From the point where the canal cuts into the limestone south of Palatka to the Gulf, the bottom of the canal will be over 30 ft. below sea level. Thus the question, important to all of Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water...
...personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that appear to be practically insurmountable, it would inevitably drain enormous quantities of water from the limestone, would lower the water level...
...Moreover, after an unlined sea-level canal, with the passage of time, had drained down the fresh water now in the limestone, ocean water, particularly from the western end, would tend to enter the canal at high tide and to seep into the limestone along the canal banks and thus to contaminate its fresh waters." According to Mr. Slattery, the U. S. Geological Survey was of this opinion...
Justice Bissell. Potent is Labor's argument that private employers use the threatened loss of relief jobs as a club to force workers to accept wages below the WPA subsistence level...