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...Originally the dam was to be 300 ft. high with a hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also put on the public works program was a 9-ft. channel for the Upper Mississippi and a $22,700,000 flood control-irrigation project on the North Platte near Casper...
...Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...
...more to see than this!" Next day, as the Conference quietly disintegrated rather than adjourned, there was even less to see. White-mustached Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung had hopped into a plane and gone back to Rome. Knife-featured French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet had caught a Channel boat for Paris, remarking politely not upon the fact that the Conference statesmen had almost completely disagreed, but instead that, "we have achieved a perfect comprehension of each others' thoughts." This comprehension had resulted in agreement on just one thing: the Conference, after holding a final plenary session at which...
...vain knife-faced French Minister Georges Bonnet fumed. Waiting for the President, he missed the Golden Arrow De Luxe Express to Paris, missed all the afternoon expresses and finally left London at 11 p. m. to toss all night on the Channel with a cabinet meeting in Paris scheduled as soon as he should arrive...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...