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Development of the St Lawrence Valley – Part 2

Flapper — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:28:43 +0000

By reason of the shorter and cheaper haul down the St. Lawrence there was a greater volume of grain shipped out of Montreal last season than the combined grain shipments out of all other Atlantic ports. The locks of the New Welland Canal, now being constructed and well advanced towards completion, are seven in number and capable of locking vessels ... continued

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Development of the St Lawrence Valley – Part 1

Flapper — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:25:08 +0000

THE wealth of the Indies was the objective of Columbus and the early explorers in their search for a westward passage to the Orient. The Portuguese navigator Antonio Galvao in 1550, in the belief that no channel-way existed between the Atlantic and Pacific, recommended that an isthmian canal be built-the precursor of the present Panama Canal. Herna... continued

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Automatic Train Control Ordered

Flapper — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:15:07 +0000

NO MORE RAILROAD WRECKS will be caused by disregard of block signals after July 1, 1924, if an order just issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission in accordance with permission given to it by the Esch-Cummins Act of 1920, becomes of effect in March, and works out as intended.

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New Gliding Records

Flapper — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:55:09 +0000

If there is any limit to the time which a man can remain in the air in a glider, it would seem to be the limit of human endurance. German aviators have apparently proved that a man in a glider under proper atmospheric conditions can keep aloft indefinitely.

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Seventy lives a Day

Flapper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:56:29 +0000

ACCORDING to figures compiled by C. E. Robb, statistician of the National Safety Council, the daily total of deaths from automobile accidents throughout the country during the month of September averaged 70 per day, or at the rate of 25,500 per year. Seventy per cent of the victims were pedestrians run down by motorists. Of this percentage, 31.8 we... continued

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Apache Trail Made Into a Road

Flapper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:37:15 +0000

THE Apache Trail, closed while improvements were being made that perfected it as an automobile highway, is open again. This means that the westbound traveler may once more deflect from the railroad to marvel at Roosevelt Dam and the man-made inland sea which the earth has now taken to herself as though it were her own, and not her foster child. It ... continued

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