Word: channelize
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...might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado Springs and recreation. Others traveled west instead of south, to see something up in the Rockies, something which made Denver a most appropriate spot for this year's convention-an engineering...
...negotiate the entire distance (24 miles) from the upper end to Fort William Henry pergola at the lower end. That meant between 15 and 30 hours in cold water nowhere over 60 degrees, in many spots 45 degrees. Among them were Ernst Vierkoetter, German conqueror of the English Channel, William Albert Ericson (the Bronx), Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel (the Bronx swimming teacher), Lucy A. F. Dimond (Brooklyn), Paul Chotteau (Manhattan) and Edward F. Keating (Manhattan). This last is a 24-year-old who learned to swim near a pier in the East River. Unlike the others above listed...
...Majesty crossed the Channel from France in a British warship, escorted by five destroyers and five airplanes. Edward of Wales met him at Dover, and they traveled swiftly by special train to Victoria Station, London. There the King-Emperor and Premier Stanley Baldwin waited...
...such a position, has never come out. But last week the Herald Tribune left no doubt in the public mind but that Mr. Forrest is now in the best of standing. Mr. Forrest, like many another correspondent, had hurried last fortnight from Paris to Ver-sur-Mer on the Channel coast as soon as news was flashed that Flyer Byrd and comrades had come down there. Mr. Forrest was alert and daring enough to get a commercial pilot to whisk him off to the coast through the stormy night so that he arrived before any of his competitor-colleagues...
...design between his own ideas and those of his friends who furnished the money, crashed at the start of its maiden voyage. He was convinced that the early pusher type of plane with propeller in the rear was wrong. His next plane, which he hoped would conquer the English channel, was designed with the propeller in front, No one seemed anxious to purchase a motor for him, so he stayed on the ground-again disappointed-while Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel...