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Cinetops in Brief No 100

Series

Series Name
Pathetone Weekly

Issue

Issue No.
518
Date Released
4 Mar 1940
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Coming Up
  2. 2Darting Dinghies
  3. 3Cinetops in Brief No 100
  4. 4Jills Without Frills
  5. 5Billy Scott Coomber and His Singing Grenadiers

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
Mississippi Boat The latest showboat on America’s mighty Mississippi River keeps pace with this age of streamlining. Nearly four hundred feet long, she’s the largest boat ever constructed for excursion service on inland waters, and she took two years to build. Giant Dam Here are millions of gallons of water, storming the high walls of the Vaalbank Dam in the Transvaal. The rains have been so heavy that the largest water conservation works in the country haven’t been able to cope with them.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Weather; Engineering
Story extras:
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