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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...
...swept by floods. In Ostend, one of the cities worst hit, the wind tore a baby from the arms of a woman struggling to escape and tossed the child into swirling water in the street to drown. In Antwerp, 120 yds. of docks crumpled into the Scheldt estuary...
...Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the Yangtze, the Yellow River, the Mekong, the Tiber, the Po, the Rhone, the Scheldt, the Rhine, men are divided-in some cases bloodily;-over whether "Marxist" should express approval or disapproval...
...body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with thousands of silent Belgians...