Word: channelize
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...short time ago Georges Barbot, a Frenchman, glided across the English Channel in his one-passenger "flivver" monoplane. It took him 44 minutes to make the trip, and he used less than one gallon of gasoline in his 15 horse-power engine. Incidentally he won a 25,000 franc prize, but that is not the point--its real significance lies in the fact that it has roused England to a realization of her danger from any hostile air-fleet in time...
...have seen the productive organs of the earth blown off by a declaration of war and the efforts of people thrown into a channel which is largely waste, should become critical of our own thinking in order that there may be a new appraisal of national values and that the spirit of international conferences may be quickened." Such was the opening thought expressed by Professor M. O. Hudson '10 of the University Law School when he addressed a small group in Longfellow House yesterday afternoon on the League, the subject being "Back-door, Side-door, Cellar-door, or Front-door...
...action of the consumer who controls the factor of Demand. It is futile to speculate as to what the future will bring, but it seems likely that either the government must increase the power of such bodies as the Federal Trade Commission or that Democracy will find a new channel for the control of industry in the "consumers strike...
...Department has declared that the extensions on the Chelsea piers obstructed the channel and must be removed. British steamship officials believed they had an understanding with the city that they might then lease Piers 86 and 88 (under construction). When the Leviathan came along it brought a situation by which either it or the British vessels would be left without docking facilities in Manhattan...
Night flying is also being prepared for between London and Paris. The trail from the London Terminus at Croydon to Lympe, where the airplanes set out across the narrow English Channel, is already a fair blaze of light. It has been named "the Regent Street of the Continental Airways." The Londoner will avoid his early closing hours by flying to Paris, doing a heavy round of Montmartre and still return early enough to rest up before his office in the morning...