Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bahamas. To World War No. I, the Bahamas' chief contributions were fresh water and fruit to roving British warboats. Last week six British warboats lay at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal waiting to prey on German shipping if the explosion came...
...plans for establishing an Arab State in Palestine with the Jews as a minority were silenced by the spectre of other powers, less friendly to Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who contributed synthetic acetone to World War I, announced: "In spite of the White Paper [establishing an Arab-dominated State in Palestine...
...July 25, 1939, when the U. S. ratified a new treaty which gave the Republic of Panama: 1) control of its own resources (no longer can the U. S. obtain land outside the Canal Zone for "maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection" of the Canal merely by asking); 2) a transisthmian highway, hitherto blocked by Panama Railroad's monopoly; 3) $430,000 instead of $250,000 Canal Zone rent per annum (retroactive to 1934) to compensate for devaluation of the U. S. dollar...
Last week when the Ancon made an anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment of $366,650,000 in ditch digging...
...battleships, now abuilding, which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important in war as its first quarter-century was in commerce...