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...Everyone knows that Europe's air system now reaches every important city and many an unimportant. But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard of it Dutchmen were dubious about...
...thought over all the games he had over seen and concluded that he must have been mistaken, yet the notion kept recurring that he had seen or read the correct solution to the question. Whether if was in a class in modern history or in what manner the missing link of memory was furnished it is hard to tell, but here is the dialogue which suggested...
Said the London Evening Standard: "So long as we persist in thinking that there is some sort of link between them [the two countries], so long will some of us persist in using that language of frank and familiar rebuke which (however mistakenly) is supposed to be proper between relatives. If we could bring ourselves to think of America as a great foreign power with which we are on friendly terms, but which expects to be treated and will treat us just like another foreign power, then these troubles might be avoided...
...There are elevators in its buildings. Its messengers pedal bicycles. Its directors ride horseback, sail boats, drive roadsters. Last week it began operating airplanes. The Company had not only contracted for the airmail route between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., but undertook a passenger service as well. This seventh link* in the country's airmail chain is 123 miles long, from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Hoover Field. Seven passengers made the first trip, among them Airplane Designer Anthony H. G. Fokker of Holland and New York...
...trite, perhaps ultra-conservative, even hypocritical upon the lips of the average Americanization worker, rings true as spoken by a Swede to members of his own race in this country. It stands out likewise as unique. In moments of extreme nationalism, nations have maintained spies in foreign lands to link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits of their toil...