Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered masters of vessels to lock up all cameras while passing through the Panama Canal; entertained as overnight guests Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, President-elect of Costa Rica, and his wife. Declared President-elect Guardia: the defense of the Canal is Costa Rica's vital interest, for which she is ready to take any measure...
Nearest potential fighting zone, in the Army's mind, is the Panama Canal. No sound Army planner expects an enemy to land troops, guns, tanks in or near the Canal Zone. But last January the U. S. Navy showed George Marshall and many another Army man what a foe might do with aircraft carriers. In joint Army-Navy practice off the West Coast, U. S. Navy planes flew at will over the fog-bound mainland, "demolished" every Army aircraft base in the game, flew gaily back to their carriers outside the fog area. Meantime, Army bombers and defensive planes...
Wants. Next step of Il Duce in his new frame of mind was to make perfectly clear that Italy's minimum aims remain in time of war what they were in peace: 1) Djibouti; 2) representation on the board of directors of the Suez Canal Co.; 3) guarantees for the Italian minority in Tunisia. He made it equally clear that anything above minimum would be in no sense repugnant to Italy...
...Britain to Rumania this winter. When ice left the rivers of France, up the Seine right through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue by canal south to Dijon, thence by another canal into the Saone, which flows into the broad, Alp-born Rhone, which enters the Mediterranean just west of Marseille, thus cutting off a long, rough trip around Spain. From photographs taken from a bridge in Paris, the British sea wasps for Rumania looked...
...human ear consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...