Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season). The Argentine's best dancers likewise performed. Mr. Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...
...When supplemented by the 80-ft. dam proposed by the Insull interests, they would yield only 40,000 horsepower. Tallulah Falls on the Tallulah River in Georgia yield 108,000. Few natural waterfalls in the U. S. have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin...
Sharks and turtle are dead & stuffed, mounted realistically to show museum visitors what roving sea life is like. That exhibit is the best and key of a whole Hall of Fishes of the World, formally opened in the museum last week. Groups represent lake, river and ocean fish life, from trout to rays (flattened sharks). Each scene makes the visitor feel as if he were under water, peering inquisitively...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...