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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain politics. They pointed out that a canal through Nicaragua would have to penetrate the mountain backbone of that country where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much as a new lock in Panama, and that the Panama Canal could carry twice as much traffic. A new canal, they added, would only make...
Oatheimer also hopes to determine the exact altitude of Tsar Mountain and to make photographs of the creek south of Tsar for the Survey. He also intends to map Tsar Creek, which flower into the Columbia River, and to chart whatever other streams are found in the locality...
...When invited to spend his summer vacation in Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield; nor is he likely to choose a Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious...
...consul, his wife and their children hastily set out with other refugees for an eminence known to ancient Chinese poets as The Purple Mountain and to moderns as Socony* Hill. Arrangements had already been made that U. S. and British warships in the harbor would lay a barrage to protect this valuable property-the signal for the barrage to be a rocket...
Laymen despaired, but the researchers plodded ahead with tasks which very much resembled the work done nowadays by government surveyors. The continent is outlined; its lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, state and county boundaries are mapped. But here remains a pond, a creek, the slope and extent of a watershed, the soil character of an unsettled valley, whose position and specifications need determining...