Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghost of the Florida Ship Canal, ten years older, stalked the U.S. Senate last week. It was no longer a $200,000,000 Presidential pump-priming scheme. With its boondoggling finery removed, the great dead ditch was now a $44,000,000 barge canal with a wartime-living excuse: to mitigate the East Coast oil shortage. But it raised the same old political ruckus-and the pros & cons were still dead white and coal black...
Said the pros: the canal could be built in only ten months, would cost no more than $44,000,000, would take almost no scarce materials. Said the cons: the canal would take some three years to finish, would cost much more than its proponents figured, would chew up from two to three times as much critical material and twelve times the operating manpower that northern pipelines would take. The Citizens Emergency Committee for Eastern Transportation Relief came out for the ditch. The Citizens Emergency Committee on Non-Defense Expenditures came out against it. Plain citizens were confused, as usual...
...Other U.S. air forces: First, Second, Third and Fourth, continental U.S.; Fifth, Australia; Sixth, Canal Zone; Seventh, Honolulu; Eighth, England; Ninth, Middle East; Tenth, India; Eleventh, Alaska; Twelfth, Northwest Africa; Thirteenth, South Pacific...
...Chicago still hates to remember the stature it lost to the East and West Coast when the Panama Canal opened. This week Chicago's Association of Commerce will bring forth a map-sprinkled plan to make Chicago as strategic to air transport as it is to the railroads. Chicago's genial Mayor Ed Kelly is preparing chest-thumping speeches to that effect; United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable...
...Collins, a veteran Navy man and Annapolis graduate. Lt. Comdr. Collins, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has seen service in many waters including disbursing duty aboard the USS Nevada and with destroyer divisions afloat. Other tours of duty included the Naval Air Station at Cocosolo, Canal Zone, the Naval Supply depot at San Diego and as Supply Officer on the USS Savannah