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...Undefeated, untied Duquesne, pride of Pittsburgh, should be chosen for the Sugar, Cotton or Orange Bowl-even though its opponents this season included such minor-leaguers as Waynesburg, Niagara, Manhattan, St. Vincent and Villanova...
When would the Allies send help? Where were the relentless rows of Allied tanks, where was the "Niagara of aid" they talked of? A handful of R.A.F. fighters had come over. The British had nobly sacrificed a few obsolescent Tomahawks, a few ancient Mohawks. The U.S. had sent some tankers of gasoline...
...escape political and religious oppression. Once the farming community they established at Saxonburg, Pa. was a success, he went back to engineering, made America's first wire rope. Soon he adapted it to building suspension bridges. After he spanned the gorge of the Niagara River at Buffalo in 1850, he and his company were famous...
Thus, total planned cost of power-seaway project is $579,000,000. Of this, Canada is to pay $277,000,000 (including credit of $133,000,000 for completed Welland Canal around Niagara Falls); the U.S. $302,000,000 (including credit of $17,000,000). Canada's cautious Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wangled a good deal: her part of the work need not be completed before 1949; if war costs are too high, she can take even longer. Thus, if the U.S. wants the project now, she must foot all the bills, at least temporarily...
Three years ago Traveler FitzPatrick met a Chicago newspaper woman. They married and for their honeymoon the couple selected one of the few sight-seeing spots the bridegroom had never visited: Niagara Falls, Land of Newlyweds. Now 39, father of two, FitzPatrick has a small "self-sustaining" island near Victoria, B.C., and a consuming desire to make feature pictures. War or no war, he no longer cares to roam, says plaintively: "Now I get homesick...