Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seaport Engineer Ernest P. Goodrich will so enlarge the harbor of Canton and deepen its connection with the sea that eventually the transshipment of goods at the British seaport of Hongkong, nearby, will be eliminated. Thus a potent source of revenue will be wrested from Britons in China...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding is famed in Holland. The son of a Dutch sea captain, he left Holland in 1884, went to the Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially...
...Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
...Paris, daughters of Georges Clemenceau, 87, took him to see, last week, his first cinema: shots of himself, the Tiger, in his remote walled garden by the sea. Crowds cheered the astonished and happy old spectator...
From the Madeira Islands the course was directed northwards towards the Azores. Late in the afternoon the ship was sighted over Sao Miguel headed finally for the open sea. It was at this time that Karl H. von Wiegand, Hearst correspondent, radioed: "While ocean liners along the northern steamer lane are laboring in the heaviest weather, the Graf Zeppelin is sailing along under beautiful skies a thousand feet above the smooth ocean...