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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course down to the Gulf at Port Inglis. Total length of the canal: 200 miles, including the sea approaches, twice that of Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida's will be a sea level canal (like Suez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Sore Thumb | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready to show that blood from a severed artery could not have spurted naturally as far as Mrs. Lamson's did, that, ergo, Mr. Lamson must have sprayed it around while beating his wife with the pipe. There will be the testimony of Dr. Clement Harisse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death For Nothing? | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...against $379,000 in 1934. Second largest farm machinery & implement company, Deere's 1935 earnings were particularly pleasing in view of a $4,335,000 deficit in 1933. The company reflected increased farm purchasing power with profit of almost 20 times 1934 earnings on estimated sales of about twice the 1934 volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Matriarch Magnin | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...fourth year of its existence, the Pistol Club can boast of an enrollment of 70 students, twice as big as last years. Although under the direction of Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, the organization is not officially connected with the Military Science department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 Postal Matches Arranged By This Year's Pistol Club | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

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