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...partisan crowd, including most the Williams varsity, watched a stuborn Amherst team and a courageous goalie battle Harvard for two periods of fun, exciting soccer. With the Crimson lead 2 to 1 at the half, a drenching rain began and continued throughout the game, turning the field into a swamp and play into a joke...
...executive vice president of Consolidated Steel Corp. Eight years later he left to form the engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone-Parsons, took on the added job of running the California Shipbuilding Corp. after the U.S. entered World War II. Starting from absolute scratch-its main yard was a swamp, and less than 1% of its 40,000 workers had shipbuilding experience-Calship turned out 467 cargo carriers and tankers in four years. At Calship, McCone worked 15 hours a day, organized the yard on an assembly-line prefabrication basis, stepped up production to record levels by improving welding techniques. After...
...aging process can be checked, but at high cost. Near Detroit, senile Long Lake, which has silted in spots to within 2 ft. of the surface, is being dredged to 14 ft.-at a cost of $100,000 for a lake only 146 acres in size. Outside Indianapolis, Bacon Swamp, which once was a lake, is getting similar dredging treatment. Algaecides are also helpful, says Frey, and so is bubbling-in oxygen during a lake's stagnant summer months. But such processes are expensive, and practical only on small lakes...
...Bronx, river boats are caught in rifle crossfire and nearly clobbered by beaver-felled trees, but Six Flags is no mere copy. Typically, the roofs of the train cars are titanic sombreros, a giant stuffed bull shaves past an overgrown matador, and landscapers have turned a Texas-sized swamp into "Xochimilco," the lake garden near Mexico City. Coming closer to home, an Indian chief holds storytelling sessions. No-good varmints hold up the bank, the post office, the train, the stagecoach ride; and the legendary Judge Roy Bean administers his rule of "Law West of the Pecos," calling...
There is nothing myopic about their business vision. Two years ago, the brothers bought one-third of the land within the city limits of New Orleans-a tract of 32,000 acres. Because nearly all the land was swamp, they paid only $300 an acre. Now they are drying out the swamp by draining off the water, eventually plan a huge development of industry, homes, highways and commercial projects. They have already recovered their original investment by taking in additional partners, and have attracted one of the world's largest and most modern coffee-processing plants, operated...