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Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...Niagara Falls Power...
Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...
...which to operate the New York canal. 5) That the cost of the New York route is four times as great as that of the St. Lawrence route: $560,000,000 from Oswego to Manhattan plus some $125,000,000 to $155,000,000 for building a canal around Niagara Falls on the U. S. side in order to make the entire route stay in the U. S.-totaling perhaps $661,000,000-whereas the St. Lawrence development would cost only $253,000,000, of which $100,000,000 could be charged to water power development, and the remaining cost...
Their itinerary in this country includes visits to industrial plants around New York City, to the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, to the Ford and General Motors plants at Detroit, to the steel mills at Pittsburgh and Gary and to the electric plants at Niagara...