Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian prisoners taken on Saipan believed that the Japanese had captured the Hawaiian Islands, that their Navy had gone through the Panama Canal without losing a ship, had taken Washington. Another yarn, which U.S. reporters read in the English-language newspaper Mainichi: the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox was losing his fleet at the rate of one or two ships a day instead of risking it all in one battle. Reason (according to Mainichi): Publisher Knox would get more stories for his newspaper that...
...cubist still life was held at the border for special examination, on the chance that it might be a plan of the Panama Canal. Rumors flew that five other pictures had been lost. Opening dates were postponed, postponed again. Half of the gala invitations sent out never reached their addresses. But last week the curtain finally went up on Mexico City's No. i art event of the season: an 83-picture retrespective exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso, the melancholy, anarchic 62-year-old Spaniard whom many consider the greatest living artist...
...train leaves South Station Sunday morning at 8 o'clock and returns twelve hours later. This train ride takes you 72 miles down through the historical south shore of Massachusetts past Plymouth, across the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzards Bay, and finally to Woods Hole on the southern neck of the Cape, jutting out into Vineyard Sound...
...gaily. She had just finished work on her latest movie. She said goodbye to steaming Cairo, stepped into her limousine, headed north for a cool vacation on the Mediterranean. While she was laughing over a joke her maid was telling her, the car skidded, plunged into a deep Nile canal, carried Ismahan to death...
...June 6, F.F.I.'s detailed plan for disruption of rail, road, canal and message communications was turned into action. All the main rail routes into France from Germany, Belgium and Italy were promptly cut or completely blocked...