Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaway and Power Project (see color pages). For three days the unstopped waters of the St. Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake, planting a trail of red and black buoys to mark the way for 80 ships waiting to follow-and for the thousands to come after the deep...
...lies in a single figure: 27 ft. When the builders complete a channel that deep, 80% of the world's cargo ships will be able to steam-with at least a few inches of water under their keels-into any port along the Great Lakes' 8.300-mile shore line. Cities in the great Midwest of the U.S. will become ocean-going ports. Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail...
...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
...furze and heather. While they continued their man hunt up to and past Fraser's house, the crofter coolly phoned the police, set a warm meal before the exhausted man. The Russians did not abandon their search until 2 in the morning, and as they pushed off from shore emptyhanded, the blue, green and white curtain of the aurora borealis shimmered above them...
Sceptre looked good-from the clean curve of her underbody to the long, sharp sweep of her bow. But just eight months after lucky gold sovereigns were tossed into molten lead and her keel was cast on the shore of Scotland's Holy Loch, Britain's yare challenger for the America's Cup also looked a slow boat. In a dozen tune-up races with an elderly twelve-meter trial horse, Evaine, the gleaming Sceptre had been beaten every time. Last fortnight as Sceptre was hauled out of the water for inspection and checking, squalls of criticism...