Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...
...monkeys was no figure of speech. One afternoon last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...
...Department order recently forbade the News (and other Army publications) to identify units on duty in the Canal Zone. Caught by this instruction just before his deadline, Editor Doster remade his paper, slapped together a rough-house satire on censorship in general. Private Buford Carter, one of the News's self-trained staff artists, drew a lush nude, crossed out her mouth, breasts, belly and calves, and captioned it: SORRY, GANG- THE NEW REGULATIONS PROHIBIT THE PUBLICATION OF PICTURES OF EQUIPMENT...
...Libyan scene of action would be only 250 miles from an advance base of the Luftwaffe. Alexandria, the final big fleet base, would be only 340 miles away, the Suez Canal, 550 miles...