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...electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles of track over 78 miles of road. Electrification will not include Lackawanna's main Buffalo-Manhattan line but will be confined to short branch lines, particularly the Morris & Essex division from Hoboken to Dover...
Later, in 1803, word came across the Strait of Dover that Napoleon was preparing to invade England; and the French Assembly was reported to have declared that England could not cope single-handed with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...
Today the fastest and most expensive rail-water-rail crossing via Dover-Calais takes seven hours, while the cheap popular route via Southampton and St. Malo requires 18. To motor from Paris to Le Bourget, fly to Croydon, and motor to London takes two and a half hours...
Respectful Englishmen welcomed the Agent General at Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given...
Miffed at what they called Attorney Culbertson's "dirty political trick," the Sheriffs moved their convention across Lake Erie to Port Dover, in southeastern Ontario. There the orgy continued...