Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...
...Canal Turned Pink. TIME Correspondent Robert Neville flew over the area last week, then talked with refugees and correspondents fleeing from the carnage. Neville cabled...
...Refugees from Lyallpur in West Punjab say that so many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them. British correspondents reported having seen dead, naked women lying about villages of the Amritsar district...
...through which it passes $74 million more. Some sections have been built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Public Roads Administration. Others, like the highway in Mexico, are a tribute to local effort. Of the 3,260 miles from the U.S. border to the Panama Canal, 425 miles are usable only in dry weather, 245 miles through jungle and mountain country are still impassable. Three years and $65,000,000 will finish the job, said white-haired E. W. James, chief of the Inter-American Regional Office of the Public Roads Administration, last week...