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...quote the article-"There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through. ..." I would like to correct part of this engineer's statement...
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Gotten, Everett Sloane; TIME, March...
...train, bus, airplane and on foot over the proposed highway route as far as Panama. There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through; that no white man had ever made the trip; that this jungle was an insuperable barrier to the highway. To Schoolmaster Tewkesbury the word "insuperable" was an affront to Americanism...
Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...
...stepping right up and doing what it could for the defense in expending its own money or someone else's money, and in doing what it could to increase the output. Our capital has practically been doubled in what we have in this business. We have gotten to the end of our rope; . . . we have spent $200,000,000 and our credit is still good; we hope we will be able to finance [further expansion]; we haven't financed it." > When Mr. Stettinius announced last November that there would be enough aluminum for civilian and military needs...