Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World v. the U.S. "We ask that the United Nations face the problem of security not piecemeal but on a worldwide basis. This means the internationalization of the Dardanelles, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. It means world disarmament and world control of atomic energy...
...army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide a catch basin to control floods. A war will be waged on the hookworm disease and malaria that infest the hot lowlands...
...House had a surface air of complacency; in fact, it could hardly muster a quorum. The reason was that most of its work-cutting Treasury funds by some $900 million, considering plans to improve the Panama Canal or admit Hawaii as a state-was being done in committee...
...India ink. He liked to paint Ireland's tinkers: the wandering tinsmiths and horse jobbers whose ability to turn broken nags into one-day blood horses, for sale at country fairs, is the stuff of Irish legend. One Le Brocquy painting of a little girl bathing in a canal (see cut) spoke of children everywhere...
...Latin American political events can any longer be unimportant to Americans-especially if they happen in Colombia. Colombia's 1,200-mile coastline faces both the Atlantic and the Pacific approaches of the Panama Canal. Its swamps and jungles cover potentially great (but unestimated) pools of petroleum, vital in modern war. Hence any stirring in Colombia's dense political underbrush is peculiarly significant...