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Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
...years ago from their home in the north of Sweden. Soprano Ljungberg well remembers the day. She had just made her first loaves of bread, set them proudly on the windowsill to cool. Brother Ljungberg took the bread when he ran away. He lives in Brooklyn now, calls himself Youngberg because people could never learn that the L in his name was silent...