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...such as that which makes it possible to barge from Manhattan to Beaufort, N. C., without entering the ocean and that which traverses most of Florida's length. When the whole project is finished, barges may travel inland from Beaufort to Sioux City, a journey of nearly 3,000 mi...
...Bronze, to Nevada Northern Railroad Co...winner of group C (operating less than 1,000,000 locomotive mi...
...Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately 550 mi...
...dividing strip of foamy yellow-brown water. Coming into Cincinnati, special policemen sweated to keep order in the dense auto lines of spectators along the river side streets. Here the Tom Greene began to pull away, was a half-mile ahead just past the city and finished the 21 mi. course at Coney Island with the Betsy Ann out of sight around the bend behind...
Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...