Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please note inclosed editorial from the Star & Herald, Panama, R. P. which ties onto your comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas...
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone...
...confused with the famed propaganda despatch of the A. P. on Nov. 17, which said: "The specter of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations, already strained...
...four and one third miles the Rove Tunnel, a canal 72 feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...