Word: scheldt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough for the crucial role of Elsa. The Wagner devotee will find here a superb rendering of the master's orchestration, but he will inevitably wonder why, with all their resources, Leinsdorf and RCA Victor let a definitive Lohengrin glide away like the swan down the River Scheldt...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...
...Concrete Piles. At the Eastern Scheldt 72 caissons will be needed, and at the Brouwershavensche Gat, 32. The most challenging project is the three-mile-wide Haringvliet inlet, through which an estimated 50% of the combined waters of the Rhine and the Meuse pour out to the sea. The plan is to close Haringvliet with massive sluices anchored to the sea bot tom by 20,000 concrete piles. In the winter and spring, the 400-ton sluice gates will open to vomit out ice sweeping down the rivers...