Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortune at baccarat. Smartly dressed socialites played roulette with 100 peso* chips; their cooks were there, too-risking two peso chips on the wheel's turn. If the season ran true to form, at least one despondent loser would sooner or later plunge into the two-foot-deep canal outside the Casino, be ignominiously fished out of the mud unhurt...
...Houston calls itself the Chicago of the South, and indeed there are resemblances. It has the unlimited elbow room of the flat country. It also has a canal which looks and smells much like ours. It has that unbounded energy and confidence in the future that used to characterize Chicago. It is remarkable for the newness of its ... buildings. Traffic is well regulated, but the drivers make more noise than I have ever heard...
...Cartagena. The upstart used U.S. loans to improve its harbor, then made the most of the fact that it was close to the mouth of the wide, serpentine Magdalena, chief communications line from coast to capital. (Cartagena's harbor is connected with the Magdalena by a canal.) Last year, Barranquilla handled 80% of the nation's exports of cotton, coffee and oil. On Colombia's Pacific side, filthy, swampy Buenaventura (literally, good luck) had made good its name: the outlet for the booming western industrial regions, Buenaventura accounted for almost half of Colombia's entire foreign...
Paul de Lesseps, 63-year-old son of the famed Suez Canal builder, was down with heart trouble and a sense of persecution in Fresnes Prison. The French Government said that Prisoner de Lesseps, who owned land in Turkey, had offered to sell it to the Germr 3, for bases from which to bomb Suez. De Lesseps' reply: the Government owed him five billion francs for land confiscated in World War I, now condemned him "to avoid paying...
...Ancon, Canal Zone...