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Between the two poles is a vast, hidden world, a nonsystem of isolated societies with more or less of the totalitarian qualities evident aboard the Neversink in Melville's White Jacket. With some encouraging exceptions, the principal distinction of the prisons is failure. More than $1 billion a year is spent to produce results that would swiftly doom any other enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Prisons: The Way to Reform | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Last week the Farmer limped into Falmouth with 60% of her precious food cargo undamaged. The Americans had found a black and white kitten on board, had promptly named her Neversink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black Looks & Curses | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...following is the first in a series of four articles written exclusively for the Crimson on conditions in Washington. Mr. Cross was born in Neversink, New York, and educated at the Ellenville High School. He received his degree from the University of Cornell Law School, where he was selected for the All-American Basketball team. He was elected six times to the New York State Assembly, and was personal secretary to President Roosevelt during his term as Governor of New York State. Recently he has been appointed Assistant Solicitor General in the Department of Justice in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...

Author: By Guernsey T. Cross, | Title: NEWS FROM WASHINGTON | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

...East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir will be made on the Neversink River. Total cost of dams, reservoirs and aqueducts for the new project: $210,000,000. Twelve years will elapse before its completion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dry Gotham (Cont'd) | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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