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...Rejected by the unanimous vote of its Foreign Relations Committee a treaty with Canada for scenic preservation at Niagara Falls because of its private water power provisions...
...following were news last week: Floyd Leslie Carlisle, chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Co., was elected chairman of New York Edison Co., big subsidiary of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Immediately after the death of Edison-Chairman Nicholas Frederic Brady (TIME, April 7), Mr. Carlisle was added to the Edison and Gas directorates. Then, as again last week, the news started many a rumor of a vast merger between Consolidated Gas and Niagara Hudson Power...
With a cavernous, crashing rumble and roar which made thousands of people stir in their sleep, and with a titanic splash and spuming which only a few noctambulating tourists beheld, the Niagara River did early one morning last week something that it has not done since 1850-chewed off another giant chunk of the ledge which makes Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...
...Lake Ontario, scientists have thought that the St. Lawrence region was once a part of the ocean. The new discovery extends this old-time ocean inlet even farther, taking in the entire Great Lakes region. Said Dr. Kellogg: "It's a cinch they [whales] didn't climb Niagara Falls...