Word: waterways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Rumania, Russia wants control of bridgeheads on the Prut and at Reni on the Danube and Snake Island in the Danube's mouth, which would give Russia control of Central Europe's main waterway...
...miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...
Stephen Winship '42 and Evan Calkins '43, both thoroughly familiar with the eccentricities of the waterway, have agreed to serve as guides on the staff of the Commodore. In addition, a gala farewell complete with band music for the paddlers will take place at the embarkation point, Weld Boathouse...
...Cambridge to the Watertown dam, thence to Waltham, Auburndale, and the Newtons; thence to Newton Upper Falls to a point between Cow Island and Dedham Island where a short portage may be made; thence between Needham and Dedham northwest to Wellesley. It has not yet been discovered whether the waterway from Lake Waban to the river is large enough to permit navigation, but an investigation is under way to clear up this matter...
Last week the Provincial Attorney General sorely vexed Ottawa, London and Washington by burbling, "If the United States want to build the St. Lawrence waterway, by all means let us join them...