Word: rivers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great ant hill which is Manhattan, three sets of ant tunnels furrow under the Hudson River and emerge in the free air of New Jersey. One set of tunnels belongs to the Pennsylvania R. R.; another set is the Holland Vehicular Tunnels, completed two years ago; the third set is called the Hudson Tubes, a commuting device...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
Canada's mushing season continued, at Quebec. Leonard Sepalla, oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...
...President Coolidge did receive, last week, a telegram worded exactly as above except that THE DENVER POST was substituted for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the self-descriptive blurb was LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The telegram was signed by that dark, daring Desperate Desmond of Journalism, Frederick G. Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, onetime riverboat gambler...
Holland Profit. The Holland Tunnel, vehicular toll tunnel beneath the Hudson River, is making money at a rate which indicates a $5,000,000 profit for 1929. Last year's profit was about $3,600,000, and 1929 traffic has shown a 25 per cent increase. Tunnel profits are shared jointly by New York and New Jersey to repay State construction costs...