Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile, 60-yard-wide, sea-level Suez Canal is managed by an Egyptian company (Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez). Its neutrality, even in war, is technically guaranteed by an international agreement. But since Britain's life line is drawn out hair-thin as it threads this needle's eye, 10,000 British troops, 400 British airmen guard it. Since most of the stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because...
...paid his respects to the sentimental Italian claims just long enough to deny them: Italian claims are based either on "bad faith" or "extreme ignorance." Of the three alleged Italian builders of Suez he said: 1) Negrelli was not an Italian but an Austrian. He never worked on the Canal. The reason: a year before Canal digging started, Negrelli died. 2) Paleocapa refused a job at Suez. The reason: he had gone blind. 3) Torelli did not become interested in Suez until the Canal was almost finished. Flatly the Suez directors turned Italy down...
Italy's annual tonnage through Suez (16.07% m 1937) is second only to Britain's 47.28%. Though 13 reductions in rates have been made since the World War, Italians still find Canal tolls ($1.38 per ton loaded, 71? in ballast) excessive. In addition, there is a charge of $1.38 for every adult passenger, 71? for every child between 3 and 12 years, using the Canal. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain has paid as high as $50,000 one way. Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried...
...million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee, appeared...
...pursuing his and Hollywood's newfound enthusiasm for history, bouncing little Producer Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox has landed on some sensitive toes: descendants of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps (whose wives and children were not accounted for in Suez), Jesse James, admirers of Alexander Graham Bell. Last month cinemaddicts who saw Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld...