Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Chicago has longed for a ditch between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi so that she may become a "seaport." Other cities on the Great Lakes have blocked Chicago-sued her, brought injunctions, vilified her-maintaining that to fill such a ditch to a navigable depth would lower the lake levels ruinously. Even Canada has glowered. They have accused Chicago of having lowered the levels ruinously already with her sewage disposal canal and added insult to injury by declaring that Chicago sewage pollutes the entire Great Lakes system (excepting Lake Superior). Lately, with the Chicago-Gulf project pending...
...only a small fraction of the shrinkage. Nature, and men in cities other than Chicago, have done the rest. The engineers stated just how much effect various degrees of diversion at Chicago would have on the levels in general; pointed out means of preventing any lowering outside of Lake Michigan (by control dams similar to those at Lake Superior's outlet). But still the wrangling went on. Nothing is more invidious than intersectional politics. Regardless of engineering figures, Chicago was to be denied diversion in principle...
...long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake Michigan." This amendment the midwesterners, who had sought a version reading ". . . does not affect in any way the question of diversion . . ." were obliged to accept in a compromise conference. The Senate adopted the Willis phrase; in other words, passed the question of diversion along to the Supreme Court to decide. The House...
...those who are ever alert for data with which to defend the present importance given to athletics in colleges and universities comes some interesting news from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron...
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