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...Virginia's tidewater district, 70 mi. from Washington and 20 mi. down the lazy Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg lies quiet old Port Royal, whose 500 inhabitants go about their unimportant affairs in a setting of faded 18th Century elegance. Port Royal has 60 old buildings, most of them built soon after the Revolutionary War. In their shadow there is genteel marketing, churchgoing, scampering of children. Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal...
Cleaning 9 ft. steel tube that winds across California carrying water into Los Angeles, workmen came to the wilderness at Grapevine Canyon 150 mi. north of Los Angeles where the tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were...
...been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery (40,000 bbl. a day), a plant that makes barrels and kegs for Sun and the trade. Shipbuilding yards and big dry-docks are at Chester...
First Dates. Off the town of Basra on the coast of Irak, the S. S. Registan, flying the Union Jack, upped anchor at noon Sept. 15. When the Registan tied up at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week she had made the 10,000 mi. voyage in 25 days 19 hr., knocking a day off the previous record. By being first ship in port with 266,000 cases of new Arabian dates she added 1½? per Ib. to the value of her cargo, making the crates in her hold worth...
...last week Dr. Baker, no longer a president, went back to Washington tired and alone. Passengers on a Pittsburgh-Washington bus saw him get aboard, a mild-faced, sandy-haired little man. Before the bus reached Washington, a 20-mi. trip, Dr. Baker alighted. Nearby was a funpark where W. &. J. students take their pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled...