Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught a little at West Point. Then he went to Cincinnati, helped adjust some harnesses to the Ohio River. Similar river work on the Tennessee (Muscle Shoals Canal) and a canal near Chattanooga helped him make friends with dams, sluices, locks. Through the Spanish War he served as Chief Engineer in the Porto Rican Army. After planning forts near Newport he joined the General Staff in Washington, where his abilities caught the tiny, twinkling eyes of William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft spoke of him to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt ordered him to Panama to cut a waterway from the Atlantic...
Near the storied river Ganges, at flourishing Allahabad, Central India, stands a jail. Last week 100 Indians, incarcerated at hard labor, revolted, pinioned their native overseer and vengefully cut off his nose. Then, arming themselves with edged tools, they climbed to the roof of the jail and bade fanatical defiance to the British Empire as personified by additional warders who appeared armed with revolvers, dragging a machine...
...report last week that the semi-bituminous smokeless coal Hercules would soon be born. The merger will include some 25 or 30 companies operating in Virginia and West Virginia, capable of producing 30,000,000 tons a year. Among the companies considering the merger are Pocahontas Fuel, New River Coal, Consolidation Coal, American Coal, Pond Creek Pocahontas, Gulf Smokeless Coal, Berwind-White Coal, General Coal, Slab Fork Coal, Crozer Pocahontas...
Cincinnati, situated on the north bank of the huge Ohio River and opposite the mouth of the small Licking River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati...
...jagged sluice of the Lehigh River cuts through the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Thither from great passenger stations and greater freight terminals on New York Harbor run the rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, clean as carving knives. Across north central New Jersey they go?through manufacturing city butted against manufacturing city...