Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breathing Spell. In Paris, shivering cinemactors quit work for a while on a film about the Suez Canal, explained that because of the coal shortage their vaporized breath ruined all illusion of the tropics...
...return for the use of the airfields and naval installations,* Ecuador would get $15,000,000 in U.S. loans for sanitary and road improvements. In Washington, Ecuador's jaunty Ambassador Galo Plaza explained that his Government fully realized the value of the bases in the defense of the Canal. He thought that the talks might lead to a treaty. Of course, the treaty might never be written, the original "gentlemen's agreement" might be enough without a written document...
...Ecuador gave the U.S. the use of bases at Salinas, on the Ecuadoran mainland, and on the volcanic Galápagos Archipelago, 864 miles southwest of the Panama Canal...
...first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...
Most of his Cabinet resigned while U.S. troops in the heavily fortified Canal Zone were just beginning to hear the echoes of Panama's political fight. Nearly half of the Assemblymen fled to the Tivoli Hotel in the Canal Zone. U.S. Army headquarters announced a "full alert," watched and listened for developments. But none supposed that they would be anything except spectators at another tour de force in Central American politics...