Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water. When the fire was over no one for a while could open the red-hot doors of the vaults in which "master" films were stored...
...Development of the Mississippi as the north-south trunk line and the "modernization" of its tributaries, to create a 9,000-mi. water transportation system in the heart of the U. S. Of this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...
...parlor radio a code-wise listener-in in Wisconsin heard screeching buzzes: "S. O. S.-S. 0. S.-Water up to- ' That was all. He telephoned the Coast Guard. But they heard no more signals. Next day the Milwaukee, one of the Grand Trunk R. R.'s big car ferries out of Milwaukee for Grand Haven had not reached her destination with a crew of 52. Two days later lake steamers sighted empty life boats, mattresses, the upper part of a ship's cabin. They picked up bodies strapped in lifebelts stenciled S. S. Milwaukee. Then they...
...rocks and wreckage. Breakwaters crumbled before the unprecedented autumnal surge. Chicagoans fled through the storm from shorefront homes and hotels. Hundreds of feet of concrete boulevards were crumpled. Waves mounting up 30 feet battered a new government lighthouse. A disrupted disposal plant poured sewage into the lake, made "city water" undrinkable...
Speedier trans-Atlantic service by air and water will work wondrous, though as yet unpredictable, changes in the future. We may be sure, however, that customers, one of the other, the "Unite States of Europe" and the United State of America will always have mutual interests that are beyond the power of political partisanship to injure in any permanent...