Word: channelize
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Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...
...Tower, Simpson's Restaurant and the Cheshire Cheese on the first three days of their week there. She will then traipse around Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Hoylake and Ranelagh, humbly admiring his niblick shots and vocabulary. That divides the misery, and on Sunday they will both be seasick crossing the Channel to drink Parisian champagne and reiterate, "Combien?" He would really have liked to play up in Scotland. She pined to see Italy and ride in a gondola. But they are an understanding couple. They compromise on Paris...
...fled from Italy without a passport two years ago, and is supposed to be financing the anti-Fascist journal, Corriere d'ltalia, now published in France. 2) Professor Salyemini, Florentine historian and philosopher, now delivering anti-Fascist lectures in London, "because I feel safer with the waves of the Channel between me and Fascismo." 3) Former Editor Nenni of the suppressed Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti, once edited by Premier Mussolini in his Socialist days...
...England the Thames overflowed disastrously at Windsor and notably throughout its entire valley. A cyclone passed over Western Scotland, and the Clyde overflowed at Glasgow. Only a single telegraph line was working out of Dublin, and at London, Edinburgh and Glasgow all overhead telephone lines were down. The cross-channel packets were buffeted by 40-foot waves...
...both a waterway and power project. A joint commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...