Word: waterway
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...antipollution efforts, Armco Steel ran an ad showing its Ashland, Ky., plant under sootless blue skies. The headline: "Imagine a steel company giving up smoking. Imagine Armco." Potlatch Forests, Inc., a lumber company, has ads with scenes of forests and wildlife. One shows a sparkling, pine-flanked waterway over the headline: "It cost us a bundle, but the Clearwater River still runs clear." The message: Potlatch installed a filter plant to remove wood and bark deposited in the river by its Idaho logging operations...
...made the trains run on time is survived by far more practical memorials. In two decades, Mussolini not only built 1,534 miles of railroads but also carved out 620 miles of waterway, 1,075 miles of highway and 400 major bridges. He leveled Roman slums to create pretentious imperial avenues and vistas and in a 14-year project drained the Pontine marshes to reduce malaria and provide land and homes for 60,000 peasants. The achievements, however, were overshadowed by depravities of the spirit. Parliament was emasculated, and opponents were dosed with castor oil or beaten to death. Mussolini...
Critics also fear that the canal may pollute groundwater, including the famed Silver Springs, only four miles away from the waterway. Others predict that the Corps of Engineers will eventually try to add other northward canal routes, cutting across the unspoiled Suwannee River...
...these problems are currently overshadowed by two pressing issues. One is the Cross-Florida Barge Canal, which is inching across the northern part of the state. Long a dream of the Army Corps of Engineers, the 107-mile waterway will link Jacksonville on the Atlantic with Yankeetown on the Gulf of Mexico. The $177 million project is being heralded by the Army as a major economic asset for the state...
...CENTURY ago this week, the French yacht Aigle, with the Empress Eugenie aboard, led a convoy of 46 vessels south from Port Said to meet Egyptian warships at Ismailia. Fireworks rocketed above the waterway, while 6,000 guests, including the Emperor of Austria and the Crown Prince of Prussia, celebrated the opening of Suez at a huge ball. Said Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps to the Khedive Ismail of Egypt: "Moses ordered the waters of the Red Sea to retire, and they obeyed him. Today, at your command, they return to their former...