Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pension projects poured in-and no Congressman who had just voted himself a cheap life pension could well refuse constituents their turn at the trough. Already the Senate had voted pensions of about $750 each to 2,276 civilians (or their widows) who worked on the Panama Canal 28 years ago. The Senate had just approved Jesse Jones's latest war baby: a billion dollars to give private property owners in the U.S. and its territories free insurance (up to $15,000) against war damage. Pending in the Senate Finance Committee were two House-passed bills loosening and upping...
This arrangement saw its counterpart in at least three theaters of war last week, where U.S. armed forces were actually functioning under a single command. In the western Caribbean, Rear Admiral John H. Hoover was in supreme command. In the Canal Zone, Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, Air Forces, was top man. In Hawaii, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz had been placed over Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons of the Air Forces, top Army man of the Islands...
From foggy Puget Sound to the foggy Gulf of Maine, 171 U.S. vessels-more than on any other ocean route-used to shuttle through the Panama Canal from coast to coast. They flew 16 house flags, in good years like 1937 carried almost seven million tons of cargo. But their rate wars were frequent, their earnings usually poor...
...operators, but shippers, will feel this blow worst. In normal years the Canal route carried 1,486,000 tons of lumber, 1,223,000 tons of foodstuffs from the Pacific Coast, 1,221,000 tons of steel products from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. To move all this over land will take 17,500 railroad cars, and the railroads are already under strain...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel, Drums Along the Mohawk. New York State's No. 1 regional historical novelist, he has an ability to bathe his restorations in a bright, bucolic, pre-New York Central freshness...