Word: canale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with money from their government to start a jute industry. Jute proved a failure, so the settlers switched to rice. When rice did not pay off, they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first roundups of alien enemies, thousands were taken to internment camps, but many more remained at large...
...nonchalant ability to record in short, spare sentences the everyday life of Frenchmen of every class and type. Built up out of thousands of small incidents, Simenon's novels never fail to show a "customary air of slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start typing at six, with either a bottle of brandy or white wine at my side; and write a chapter an hour until noon, when...
...smoke machines, now in mass production, are capable of blanketing wide areas such as the nearby Martin aircraft plant or even the entire Panama Canal to protect them from bombers. >Newest chemical grenade is a small smoke-producer that belches a cloud of green, red, purple or any other color. It was developed on the Army's demand for a method of tank identification in the dust-choked confusion of desert fighting...
...everyone Knew that a new era was beginning. All afternoon tense groups huddled around radios, and some brought little portables down into the dining halls to catch the latest news. "Did you hear we sunk an aircraft carrier of their's off the Panama Canal? Manila has been bombed several times? Most of our fleet was out of the harbor at the time, and the Nips only sunk an old target ship and a couple of destroyers, anyway. Well, this...
...possible to move freight between the two countries without benefit of tiny barges poled by leisurely boatmen. By next May, when the Central American links of the Inter-American Highway are scheduled to be completed, there will at last be a continuous overland route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone. Mexico's spindly transportation system will then funnel a vastly greater flow of traffic...