Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union called out 5,000 members manning the ships that ply the Great Lakes. The issue: an eight instead of a twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked for 24 hours, longest delay in its history, before a Government tug could move...
...Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock. Crewmen left the ship to join the strikers, forced the skipper to go back. Soon 18 ships were blocked in the canal...
...five hours, Commons hotly debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...
...beyond Plato, peopling their imaginary lands with super-cultured inhabitants. Greatest extender of the Atlantis myth: Author James Churchward, who invented the "lost continent of Mu" in the Pacific. Its inhabitants, the originators of civilization, colonized Atlantis 20,000 years ago. Their ships entered the "Amazon Sea" through a canal cut through the Andes Mountains, then in the puppy stage. Other Muvian colonies: Egypt, Greece, the Mayans...
...importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened doors, cupboards and trunks helped to keep the birth canal open. A respectable lady did not allow a male doctor to examine her person. Hidden behind the bed curtains, she extended first one wrist, then the other, handed out an ivory female figurine marked with the place where the pain was located...