Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...
...hills above Kobe, Japan's fifth largest city (pop. 938,200), is the twelve-year-old, $3,471,600 gigantic Kita-machi Reservoir. On the southern part of the main Japanese Island of Honchu, on which are located Japan's chief cities, fell last week exceptionally heavy rains. Heaviest rainfall was in the highly industrialized area of Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto. One morning the Kita-machi Reservoir broke. A torrent swept down the city. Landslides slid into East Kobe's residential sections, threatened even neighboring Osaka. Kobe's Broadway, the Motomachi, was flooded with ten feet...
...president and an administrative committee of board members. City has a group of Gothic buildings on Washington Heights and a 16-story business school downtown. Hunter is scattered among its main centre at 68th St. and Lexington Ave., a midtown office building and a new campus next to a reservoir at the farthest limits of The Bronx. Brooklyn has just moved out of five rented, jampacked office buildings around Borough Hall. Queens starts in a group of buildings, once a reform school for truant youngsters, in Flushing...
...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
Floods & Power. From George Aiken of Vermont came a bitter blast at Federal intervention in flood control. The whole Connecticut River flood-control program has been held up by New Deal insistence that, in return for Federal aid, all reservoir and power sites be turned over to the Federal Government-which Vermont refused to do. Vermont's Aiken: "Shall the Federal Government have the authority to take from a State without its consent and with or without recompense the natural resources [reservoir and power sites] upon which the industry, the income and the welfare of the people may depend...