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...IMPREGNABLE WOMEN-Eric Link-later-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Virginia gentleman, George Washington, with large landed interests on both sides of the Alleghenies, began urging the construction of a canal to link the Atlantic seaboard with the trading centres of the Ohio valley. Though the need for trade routes was obvious, engineers sneered at such an undertaking, and the plan was forgotten. Half a century later, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. was founded, and in 1850 an $11,500,000, 184-mile canal between Georgetown, D. C. and Cumberland, Md. was opened. For 73 years hundreds of coal barges plied between the mouth of the Potomac and mining towns...
Robert Young controls Alleghany Corp., top holding company in the former Van Sweringen railroad empire. William Potter is board chairman of Guaranty Trust Co., which holds, as collateral on bonds now in technical default, Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp., middle link in the chain between Alleghany and rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Financiers Young and Potter have been on the mat for months to see which shall dominate C. & O. (TIME, April...
...officials removed the battered engines to their Cleveland shop, dismantled them. In the starboard engine they and Department of Commerce agents found a faulty master rod bearing and the crushed remnants of a link pin. That apparently accounted for the failure of one engine. Missing links to the disaster story were the failure of the other motor, and Pilot Brandon's failure to drop flares which would have shown him that the gully he crashed in was flanked by broad, roomy fields...
...first to link escapists and colonizers, Author Millin pounds out the link with an uncommonly honest and brilliant, if uneven, vigor; almost, as in her other eleven novels (God's Stepchildren, et al.), writes a first-rate book. Mainly she fails through too much haste. (Her biographies -Cecil Rhodes, General Smuts-took a whole year to write. Her novels get themselves written in a month...