Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under a permit dated March 3, 1925, Illinois and its Chicago sanitary district have been drawing some 8,500 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants...
...CRIMSON candidate serves no apprenticeship of disagreeable routine. He has no soiled laundry to count, no water to carry. He starts his competition Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning he is a full-fledged reporter. The writer, when he had been a candidate for the CRIMSON less than 24 hours was interviewing George M. Cohan in his dressing-room in a Boston theatre. And Mr. Cohan had no idea that he wasn't a veteran of many such interviews. Or if he did, he politely made no comment about...
From an automobile, Secretary Hoover viewed the water-wrecked Winooski Valley. In Montpelier, Vermont's capital, he sat down and studied reports. Then he went to Springfield, Mass., where the New England Council was holding its third annual conference. There he outlined what had happened, what might be done, methodically classifying both...
Lions, elephants, gnus, water buffalo, pythons, a rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon-Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much...
...called for a drink. A small native with shoe-button eyes trotted briskly up to him, pushing a white three-wheeled barrow; in the barrow were the materials for making drinks. Surprised by this display of ingenuity, Childs H. Baker selected a concoction of gin, lime-juices, ice & fizzy water. As he quaffed, he became thoughtful...