Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vehicles crossing the Charles River during the present week will not be able to use the Larz Anderson bridge, for it will be closed for repairs, it has just been made known. If progress continues as planned the roadway will again be open for traffic in time for the Holy Cross football game in the Stadium Saturday...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...
...Pennsy is not sole in its extensive plans. The New York Central a few months ago consulted with General Electric to electrify its tracks along the Hudson River from Manhattan towards Albany, and mayhap to Buffalo. And practically every other large system has plans, more or less detailed, in the same vein...
...Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
This last was the list of exceptions reserved by Nominee Hoover to cover such "local instances," and vexed political issues, as the Muscle Shoals project in Alabama and the Boulder Dam project on the Colorado River...