Word: waterways
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...laden Chinese junks. They were believed to have sunk all Chinese warships anywhere in the vicinity of Nanking for many miles up and downstream. Colonel Hashimoto, senior Japanese officer, announced "I have orders to fire on every ship in the river!" Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers...
...millions of Midwesterners the Great Lakes are a vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports...
...Phelps Smith alone stayed on. As shrewd and eccentric as his father, Phelps added to his holdings until he had some 30,000 acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that...
...ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
...Duwamish Waterway, booming Boeing last week began adding to its 2,000 employes, secretively kept figures to itself, but delightedly announced that its unfilled contracts totted up to the biggest sum in the company's 21-year history. "Henceforth" remarked Claire Egtvedt, "Boeing will build only four-motored jobs...