Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservatives. In Venice, 400 licensed gondoliers asked the city fathers please to bar motorboats from the Grand Canal, to preserve 1) the prestige of the gondola; 2) the foundations of the buildings; 3) the lives of tourists...
Because of its location (the first good Pacific harbor south of the Panama Canal) and the importance of the area it serves (up-&-coming Medellin, and the coffee lands of the Cauca valley), Buenaventura is also on the way to becoming the best-equipped port on South America's west coast. Last fortnight, a U.S. contractor (Raymond Concrete Pile Co.) finished two new storage warehouses and a 1,057-ft. wharf extension, which increased total berthing space to 3,432 lineal ft. Last week, the Colombian government signed a new, $4 million contract with the same company...
...fortnight ago, in a swivet of anti-Yanqui hysteria, Panama's National Assembly unanimously rejected the U.S.-proposed treaty for 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. Last week, to Panama's astonishment, the U.S. promptly ordered its armed forces to vacate all bases outside the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, including the big bomber base at Rio Hata...
...part, the U.S. was not dissatisfied. Of the 134 defense sites occupied temporarily during the war, almost all had been restored. The remaining 14-fighter strips and radar outposts-would give the Panama Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...
...Verdi got $20,000 from the Khedive of Egypt for Aïda, which was written for the opening of the Suez Canal. A Stalin Prize, first class, also pays about...