Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of keeping the U.S. forces home to defend the U.S., pointing out that then no aid could be sent to China; the southwest Pacific would fall to the Japanese, who would then be able to launch large-scale attacks on the U.S. and Alaska; that Turkey, the Suez Canal, North and West Africa would fall to the Nazis; that the British and Russian efforts would be crippled. Such "foolish advice," he said, would result in a "turtle policy": "We prefer to retain the eagle as it is-flying high and striking hard...
...bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas rid Panama of yellow fever, reduced malaria, made possible the building of the Canal...
...great straits which bottleneck the seas, only two remain exclusively under Allied control. Both are man-made straits. The Suez Canal serves to keep the Axis Navies apart. The Panama Canal serves to keep the U.S. Navy together. The loss of both or either of those canals might give the combined enemy worldwide naval parity. Without naval supremacy, expeditionary forces stay home...
...three tankers in all, damaged a fourth later off Curaçao. Its shore-aimed fire, directed at Standard Oil Co.'s big refinery, did no damage.' But the Axis had carried the war into the Caribbean, only 750 miles from the Panama Canal...
...arrested 23 times on suspicion of being a Nazi agent, once in the Panama Canal Zone by his own countrymen, where it took some careful explaining to get himself out of the detention camp in which he was lodged for a short while...