Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Corps of Engineers had one of the biggest and toughest jobs last week since they built the Panama Canal. They were both surviving and thriving on it. There was no fanfare. Almost no outsiders had penetrated the vast, still, endless wilderness where the engineers are wrenching and hacking a great military road 1,500 miles from Fort St. John, B.C. to mid-Alaska...
...Great Lakes tankers have hauled oil west from pipeline heads at Toledo instead of to Buffalo for connection with Erie Canal barges. Fully utilized, the capacity of the Canal could be stepped up to 150,000 barrels daily from its present 50,000-barrel trickle. At this rate, from last May to the close of navigation this winter the East would have gained 20-odd million barrels...
...which had no ski-and-mule troops until 1941, is far behind the Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...
Across the Pacific (Warner) is a midsummer melodrama that scarcely gets out of the Atlantic. On a cruise down the east coast of North America (Halifax to the Canal Zone) are Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. They have such a good time sunning themselves that they neglect to make much of a picture...
Badman Bogart has been cashiered from the U.S. Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...