Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowy-haired Hugh Butler charged that over three years the U.S. was spending $6 billion to win friends south of the border. (In an appendix, his figures grew to $8 billion.) Into the cost of Good Neighborism, Butler had even put the $75 million cost of operating the Panama Canal. He had charged to Latin American good will the $292 million the Navy spent on Caribbean and Canal defenses...
Flak got five R.A.F. Wellingtons over Berlin the night of Nov. 14, three years ago, and a pilot parachuted into the Teltow Canal near Tempelhof Airport. Middle-aged civilian wardens fished him out, escorted him to a police station. The police gave him hot Ersatzkaffee. The prisoner made a face and everyone laughed...
With small ceremony, the U.S. Army Engineers celebrated completion of the biggest job in their blueprints since the Panama Canal. Last week the last link in the Akan Highway was made ready for traffic. "The Road" was finally open: a two-way military highway which is the first all-year land connection of Alaska to Canada...
Well-no. We've got to guard our shores and the Panama Canal and Alaska and Hawaii. Can't trust those other nations. They'd say they were going to stay disarmed and then build stuff on the sly. No, not disarmament. I'm against...
...wants no such government, in the course of regulating commerce between the nations, to internationalize the Panama Canal-and perhaps to send its police force down there, aboard bombing planes and battleships, to see that the U.S. clears out quietly...