Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...
This week ice breakers are out, smashing a channel to the Soo canal. Behind them Coast Guard boats are placing buoys, checking lights. At the ore docks, 70-ton cars of ore from the fabulous Mesabi range wait for the first ships, the Great Northern Railway men stand by, ready to smash a record made last October-333 ships loaded, at an average time of 2 hr. 35 min. per ship...
...missed the obvious. In 1940 the experts had Hitler invading France-but he struck at Norway first. In 1941 he was going against the British or Turkey-but he turned against Russia instead. Now, in 1942, it seemed that Hitler would strike toward the Russian Caucasus or the Suez Canal. Naturally, the Swedes began to worry...
Similar means of extracting a living from journalism were those employed by Le Matin's Publisher Maurice Bunau-Varilla (whose brother started the Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first...