Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand at combining business & pleasure, the President had taken time on his trip to scrutinize the Panama Canal Zone defenses minutely. He came back renewing his demand that Congress at once appropriate $15,000,000, authorize $99,300,000 for a third set of Canal locks-ultimately to cost $277,000,000. (Both appropriation & authorization were promptly turned down by the House.) He also wanted the number (secret) of airplanes & anti-aircraft guns in the Zone doubled...
...American Republics are in accord on the Canal's defense, said the President to the press. To official circles, a few hours after his return, he said that he had personally obtained direct permission from three countries (Colombia, Panama, probably Costa Rica) near the Canal for U. S. military use of their airports in wartime defense of the Canal. If new locks are not begun pronto, he warned (their construction will take six years), Congress will be to blame. Mumbling "economy," his leaders moped back to Capitol Hill to try again...
...Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side; and the amazement of a local Ariadne deserted on the bank as I took unobtrusively to the waters which drowned love. It was better, I reflected as I swam away, that she should be astonished than that we should...
...Close the Panama Canal to belligerent warships...