Word: channelize
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...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...Dredging and maintaining a 24-ft. channel in the Great Lakes, a 27-ft. channel in the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Lake Ontario?first step in the proposed Lakes-to-Atlantic big-ship waterway...
...Digging a 9-ft. channel up the Mississippi River (prime "main trunk system") from the mouth of the Illinois to Minneapolis & St. Paul; reaching a 6-ft. channel into the wheat country as far as Sioux City, Iowa, along the Mississippi's tributary, the Missouri...
...head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy scrawls are due to disordered, scrambled minds. The little house with smoke curling from the chimney is drawn by the lonely, sad, disappointed-in-love, childless person. You never scribble? Then your wish, desire, will, ability all flow into the same channel. ELISABETH THOMAS Graphologist Los Angeles, Calif...
Last week the utility interests of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance, crossed the. English Channel and arrived in the British Isles. Their advent was signalized by the formation of British & International Utilities, Ltd., a corporation designed to acquire stocks in leading utilities of the British Isles and the British Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord...