Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restated his preference for the St. Lawrence River, as opposed to the N. Y. State Barge Canal and the Hudson River, as the route for a Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway...
Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus tells of such a tempest as stirred the demons of the Pacific into an oceanic Walpurgisnacht off Central America last week. Two ships reached harbor safely at Balboa, Canal Zone. The freighter William A. McKenney lost a third mate, steward, carpenter, boatswain, six seamen, two cooks, the first and chief assistant engineers who were battening down tarpaulins and were caught in the abrupt rush of an enormous wave. Only seven of the crew survived. Also reminiscent of Conrad was the cat of the liner American Star, which reappeared, wan, mewing, after...
Writer. Richard Halliburton, who writes travel stories with the sprightliness of an old spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred...
Sirs: In your otherwise accurate article on Egypt (TIME, July 30, p. 13) occurs the following: "If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal. . . . For this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves...
...only reference to his fame as an engineer) : "All these projects will probably require an expenditure of upwards of one billion dollars within the next four years. It comprises the largest engineering construction ever undertaken by any government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should...