St Lawrence Seaway Plan Opens Great Lakes to Ocean Shipping
New York report says over 70 percent of world merchant shipping could access Great Lakes ports if Congress approves the St Lawrence seaway. The $266 million project would create a 2,350 mile waterway with a 27 foot canal depth, locks, and hydro electric facilities near Massena New York, aiding defense and reducing Midwest freight costs by about 80 million dollars annually.
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St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
New York
St. Lawrence Seaway
Congress
North America
Board of Engineers
Canada
United States
United States Army
International Rapids
Lake Ontario
Massena
N. Y
Atlantic
Duluth
Minn
Department of Commerce
Middle West
Welland Canal
Niagara Falls
Canal and Rocks
Roosevelt
Lakes
Boulderdam
Bonneville
TVA
Grand Coulee
Washington
Seaway
Voting Is Patriotic N C T C Leader Urges Civic Plan
Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, president of the National Consumers Tax commission, declares that women now have a practical role in national defense through voting. She urges 2,500 units in 43 states to adopt a 10 point civic program to improve local governments and cut costs, noting all points are tested and non revolutionary. They aim to press the program locally as the Nineteenth Amendment nears its twenty first anniversary.
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Chicago
Melville Mucklestone
National Consumers Tax Commission
American Legion Auxiliary
U. S
New Organization Proposes Public School Aviation Training
New organization Air Youth of America launches a nationwide effort to fund aviation training in public schools. It aims to raise $100,000 from business and private donors to enable the program enrollments and lessons across the nation.
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New York
America
Air Youth of America
Napoleon's Defeat at Sedan and Later War Notes
The text notes Napoleon III’s decisive 1870 defeat at Sedan by Prussia in northern France. It also references an American military advance before the 1918 Armistice and a German action cited as the first perforation of a broader defensive line in Liv region.
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Napoleon
Sedan
France
Napoleon III
Dive Bombing Tactics Traced to United States Origins
The article notes that the dive bombing technique now used by Germany was developed by the United States Army Air Force after World War I. It recalls a 1932 Marine Corps dive bombing demonstration in Cleveland attended by a German air force reserve officer, highlighting the early cross observations.
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Kelly Field
Texas
Germany
United States Army Air Force
Marines
Cleveland
Air Force
Vermont origin story and path to statehood
Vermont was not an original colony and joined the Union on March 4, 1791 after a complex path that included English settlement in 1753 at Brattleboro, successive claims by New Hampshire Massachusetts and New York, and a series of conventions that named the region New Connecticut before settling on Vermont.
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Vermont
Union
Brattleboro
New Hampshire Grants
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
New York
Ticonderoga
Crown Point
Ethan Allen
Green
Mountain
Continental Congress
Army Survey Ranks Gifts for Soldiers in Chicago Area
The Sixth Corps area in Chicago surveyed chaplains morale officers and enlisted men on appropriate gifts for the expanding U S Army. Desirable items are small portable and well marked with rank camp company and post office details. Suggestions include tennis gear shaving supplies clothing and sundry personal items.
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Chicago
United States
Sixth Corps
Doldiee
Iien
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Ro Toun
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N.C.T.C
Sound Business
United W Savings
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