Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Independence, Iowa, on the Wapsipinicon River, Harry Ervin Yarnell went to Annapolis in 1893, and started his career in the U. S. Navy. It was his luck, good or bad, to be assigned to the Orient. He saw the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, subsequently much of the world from the deck of U. S. warships...
...city's Polish refugees, fresh from Warsaw, wondered if Nazi bombers had not paid it a visit. The Calea Victoriei is half boarded up as the street's smaller twists are being straightened out. A wide boulevard is being cut through the old Jewish bazaar quarter. The River Dambovitsa, long an open sewer dividing the city, is being covered over by a broad thoroughfare...
...coal problem, the Army's answer is the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. (But Administrator Paul Raver boasted last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific...
...denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
...clock, the Corps will reform in the Yard and march to the Stadium via the Dudley Gate on Quincy Street, Bow and DeWolfe Streets, Weeks Bridge, and the Charles River Road, arriving on the field at 1:15 o'clock...