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...Clipper. Down the ways at the Boeing plant in Seattle fortnight ago the largest U. S. seaplane ever built slipped gently into the narrow Duwamish Waterway. The launching of the 41-ton, 4-motored Boeing 314 Clipper, destined one day to fly the oceans for Pan American Airways, relieved congestion at Boeing's, where there are under construction five more Clippers and the first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than...
...development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts. His reasoning: A 360-mile ditch between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in northern Montana would open a waterway at least six feet deep between New Orleans and Portland, Ore. (A 260-mile ditch between the Potomac and Ohio would open a waterway from Washington, D. C. to Cairo, Ill. on the Mississippi...
...expected, the court accepted the wording of the TVA Act and the testimony of TVA experts as proof that the TVA is an all-round waterway development project. The judges then proceeded to inspect TVA's record as a utility business. Since 1934 TVA has made a total net income of $2,087,497 by selling power to 17 municipalities and 15 co-operatives in four States-Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Many localities have been helped to buy or build their distributing systems by PWA loans-and-grants of which up to 45% may be outright gifts. This...
Young Hourtley had planned to voyage on the inland coast waterway. "I would have made it, too, if it hadn't been for the confounded Coast Guard," he said...
...there in the mass of anonymous writing, individual passages stick in the memory: the description of industrial Lawrence, Mass., of the slums of Washington, D. C. that lie within sight of the Capitol; the list of Whitmanesque place names-Corncake Inlet, Money Island, Frying Pan Shoals-in The Intercoastal Waterway; the account of Fort Fisher, in the same volume, where the sea, nibbling away at the old Confederate breastworks, occasionally washes up the skeleton of a soldier...