Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 25--U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold registered Egypt's new declaration on Suez Canal operations as an "international engagement" today...
...Rejected as propaganda a Soviet complaint of discrimination against three Russian ships which recently used the Panama Canal...
Walkie-talkies had not been invented in 1910, when Humorist Robert Benchley delivered his uproariously unmedical lecture, "Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera," so the imaginary expedition from gullet to fundament could make no on-the-spot broadcasts of its progress. Last week Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed...
WASHINGTON, April 18--The State Department is expected to issue in a few days a statement which will effectively lower the barriers against use of the re-opened Suez Canal by American ships...
Present official thinking--assuming the Western powers won't get a satisfactory arrangement with Egypt for operation of the canal--is that the United States should simply advise ship operators that if their vessels must use the waterway the operators should be alert to the requirements of U.S. Treasury regulations specifying that canal tolls be paid to Egypt only under protest...