Word: waterway
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Father to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler's thoughts of Drang nach Osten was Charlemagne, who late in the 8th Century had his eye on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne planned an arterial waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the Rhine and the Danube, thence to the Eastern capital, Constantinople. But when his engineers tried to link up the Rhine and the Danube, rains and mountains stymied them...
...through the last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
...treaty U. S. gunboats have the right to patrol the Yangtze River, an international waterway. The war between Japan and China has not legally affected these rights. The U. S. river gunboat Monocacy (pronounced mo-nock'-asy) has recently been on refugee work near Kuikiang, 450 miles upstream from Shanghai. Low on food and fuel, the coal-burning ship was scheduled to go to Shanghai for provisioning...
...founded, and in 1850 an $11,500,000, 184-mile canal between Georgetown, D. C. and Cumberland, Md. was opened. For 73 years hundreds of coal barges plied between the mouth of the Potomac and mining towns over the mountains. Eventually the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose tracks paralleled the waterway, gained control of the canal...
...above its book value, thereby getting enough cash to meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...