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Word: air-attack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day, the next day? Then, why not put a lid over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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