Word: waterways
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...Germans blew up locks on the Rhine-Hoerne canal, thus blocking an important waterway. After the French had patiently cleared away the debris, the Germans promptly sank a number of coal barges, thereby reblocking the canal...
...project for improving the St. Lawrence waterway will reduce the cost of transportation from Boston to the West, will help relieve railway congestion, and will provide cheaper power," said Senator I. L. Lenroot of Wisconsin during a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the St. Lawrence project, in which he maintained the opposite side of the case from that taken by Congressman S. W. Dempsey of New York in an interview published in the CRIMSON on April...
...There are six main reasons why I do not approve of the plan for improving the St. Lawrence waterway," said Congressman S. W. Dempsey of New York, chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors in the House of Representatives, during an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...Finally, above all in importance to its citizens is the development, growth, and prosperity of the whole of the United States through improving and using its own waterways instead of those of a foreign country. This from the broad point of view is to the interest of the north west. It is this that they should bear in mind when considering the proposed improvements of the St. Lawrence waterway...
...roar of laughter from those who know Germany's financial state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with his former jailers. Either would be a fitting third act, and one at which the Germans could indulge in their infectious laughter to the merriment of everyone. Indeed, 'tis a pretty play, and surpasses even the time-worn spectacle...