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...Latins find U.S. glee-club singing even more exotic than U.S. dancing. South American universities have nothing resembling the Yale Glee Club, which set sail last week for a seven-week tour of a dozen South American cities...
...grain elevators and ore docks of Duluth and the broad mouth of the St. Lawrence, the inland waters drop 602 feet, roar over rapids, dodge many an island. The Seaway project would make these waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost of the Panama Canal...
...make a blowgun to how to tie a double bowline. It sold 250,000 copies in 50 years, still sells to this day. The U.S. woods are dotted with lean-tos built according to Dan Beard's plans; each spring kites modeled on Dan Beard's pattern sail over innumerable U.S. villages. Millions of rabbits have avoided without difficulty the contraptions, involving a notched stick and a box, which were supposed to be rabbit snares. Long before the Boy Scouts of America were formally organized, a generation of U.S. boys had studied The American Boys' Handy Book...
...obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...
...airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...