Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard boarding parties, working in perfect liaison with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, struck suddenly and efficiently in 17 U. S. ports, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cristobal, Canal Zone. Seized were 28 Italian, two German, 36 Danish ships; total tonnage: 300,000. Twenty of the Italian ships, it was found, had been "put completely out of action." Rods and shafts had been cut with acetylene torches, engines and equipment wrecked with sledge hammers, bearings chiseled, bulwarks pried down with crowbars, boilers burned out, movable equipment dismantled. At Norfolk the blue-jacketed guardsmen caught one Italian...
...Panama Canal: pumps...
Last week, somewhere in the Pacific, two U. S. naval planes collided. Six men died. At Opa Locka, Fla., a naval training plane fell out of control, the pilot's parachute did not open, and he was killed. An Army Air Corps lieutenant crashed, fatally, in the Panama Canal Zone. An Army fighter crashed near Mitchel Field, L. I., another Army plane had a forced landing near Buffalo. The pilots of both planes survived...
...battleship-let alone an 80,000-tonner. And Naval authorities doubted the wisdom of concentrating so much fighting power in a single hull. Such a giant ship would lack speed, maneuverability, would offer a much bigger target to air attack, would be unable to get through the Panama Canal. And its loss would be a staggering blow to any fleet. Nevertheless, the U. S. Navy has always believed that in a showdown between speed and gun power, gun power would be the winner...
...naval secret last week. But plain as the nose on the Führer's face was the fact that the five new warships would be far & away the biggest ever built. By the time these monsters are finished (five years), the new, enlarged locks of the Panama Canal will let them pass from ocean to ocean...