Word: canal
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Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not something that seriously-minded progressive democrats paid any attention...
Leeches are always available, and in considerable demand. Rare drugs, herbs, roots and ancient remedies, as well as modern pharmaceuticals, biologicals and proprietary medicines, fill the four-story Samson Building, a few steps off famous Canal Street. . . . The Samson Drugstore, too, has its library of old and modern works on pharmacy...
Admiral Cunningham first fought as a midshipman in the Boer War. In World War I he was at Gallipoli, and assisted in one of the great exploits of naval history, the bloody blocking of the Zeebrugge canal. Two other assignments in the Mediterranean, between World Wars I and II, taught him the capes and caprices of that...
...State Department announced that it had severed relations with French-owned Martinique, the green, blockaded Caribbean island which lies spang across the Atlantic approach to the Panama Canal. In his umpteenth sharp note, long-suffering Secretary Cordell Hull told the island's Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, that he was, in fact, a tool of Hitler. The U.S. would stand his obstinacy no longer; it recalled its consul general. (But the vice consul and a naval observer were left on the island.) The white-bearded, intransigent Admiral did not reply...
Waterways, Airways, Trucks. Only six months ago, barges lay idle on most of the nation's rivers and canals. Now only the southbound movement of freight on the Ohio and Mississippi is not at near-capacity levels. No. 1 war cargo on the waterways is oil; No. 2, coal. Busiest U.S. barge canal is the Gulf Intra-Coastal (Corpus Christi, Tex. to Carabelle...