Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, President Roosevelt urged revival of two pet projects: 1) The projected $200,000,000 Florida Ship Canal (on which $5,400,000 of WPA money was spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine...
...Guam to Samoa around the Navy's present westernmost major stronghold at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these would include a new base in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, expansion of aviation facilities at Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. Companion Army measures would allot $62,000,000 to strengthen Panama Canal defenses, supplement naval bases in the Atlantic and Pacific with Army personnel and equipment...
...Increasing and re-housing the present garrison of 13,000 in the Panama Canal Zone...
With reference to the outcome of the friction in North Africa, Salvemini declared. "For the time being I don't think the situation will grow dangerous. I suspect that all these outcries which are being made about Tunis, the Suez Canal, and Djibouti is meant not as much to disturb the French as to please Mr. Chamberlain...
Mussolini interrupts several times to suggest that he ask for Tunisia and Corsica but Hitler suggests that he be content for the moment with demanding "Djibouti and some advantages in the Suez Canal...