Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Milan, neither seaport nor lake town, viewed with alarm increasing numbers of commercial hydroplanes which dotted the sky above the city, but never descended. Enterprising Milanese therefore chose to build an artificial lake where seaplanes may alight. Surrounding will be hangars, offices, hotels. But already, like a huge glittering coffin, the oblong water field waits for hydroplanes...
...from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every day in the year, and-wonder of wonders-a rail connection with the seaport Guayaquil...
...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...
...have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport of Vera Cruz a strange streaky red glow in the night sky accompanied the tremors, which were strong enough to ring the Cathedral bells. Municipal water tanks at Mexico City trembled until they slopped over...
Zuider Zee. As far as written history records, the Zuider Zee of the Netherlands was until 1395 a fresh-water lake. In that year the ocean broke through the barrier of dunes. Hence Amsterdam is a seaport. Lately, however, the Dutch have started an 8-year project to build 18 miles of main dykes 450 ft. wide, 25 ft. above Amsterdam's level to lock in the Zuider Zee. By 1952 swamps will be reclaimed, almost 1,000,000 acres of land reclaimed, and the Zuider Zee made again into an inland lake...