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T WO thousand miles of inland waterway , running nearly the whole north and south extent of the United States ... and for the sake of add- ing six more miles to the two excursion boats are able to cover that six - mile stretch now ...
T WO thousand miles of inland waterway , running nearly the whole north and south extent of the United States ... and for the sake of add- ing six more miles to the two excursion boats are able to cover that six - mile stretch now ...
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HUNDRED - MILE " COASTER " WHAT is undoubtedly the most daring of railroad enterprises is the famous OroyaLima project in the Andes , in Peru . In a distance of one hundred and forty miles this line rises from sea - level to an altitude ...
HUNDRED - MILE " COASTER " WHAT is undoubtedly the most daring of railroad enterprises is the famous OroyaLima project in the Andes , in Peru . In a distance of one hundred and forty miles this line rises from sea - level to an altitude ...
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It had to cross a hundred miles of barren desert ; it had to bore its way through a mountain range . A cement mill , a hundred - and - fifty - mile railroad , and three power plants had to be built ; fiftyseven camps had to be ...
It had to cross a hundred miles of barren desert ; it had to bore its way through a mountain range . A cement mill , a hundred - and - fifty - mile railroad , and three power plants had to be built ; fiftyseven camps had to be ...
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