Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic of Panama agrees to cooperate in all possible ways with the United States in the protection and defense of the Panama Canal. Consequently, the Republic of Panama will consider herself in a state of war in case of any war in which the United States should be a belligerent, and in order to render more effective the defense of the Canal will, if necessary in the opinion of the United States Government, turn over to the United States in all the territory of the Republic of Panama, during the period of actual or threatened hostilities, the control and operation...
Further Provisos. 1) Panama will suppress any radio apparatus set up within her borders upon notice from the U. S. that it is to the detriment of the defenses of the Canal. 2) Upon due notice, the armed forces of the U. S. may proceed into or through Panama, even in peace time, for "maneuvers or other military purposes." 3) The flight of U. S. military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control...
...Allegedly he inspired the Associated Press to make its widely flayed charge (TIME, Dec. 20) that a "Bolshevist hegemony" is being set up in Nicaragua with Mexican support "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal." The United Press refused to spread this report, which was popped conveniently on the eve of a statement by Secretary Kellogg envisioning a sterner attitude toward Mexico...
...Great Lakes have blocked Chicago-sued her, brought injunctions, vilified her-maintaining that to fill such a ditch to a navigable depth would lower the lake levels ruinously. Even Canada has glowered. They have accused Chicago of having lowered the levels ruinously already with her sewage disposal canal and added insult to injury by declaring that Chicago sewage pollutes the entire Great Lakes system (excepting Lake Superior). Lately, with the Chicago-Gulf project pending in the Senate, the Chicago Tribune, has served its public by returning the insult, showing that Detroit "spews," that Toledo "defiles," that Cleveland pollutes and lies...
...diversion issue has been the greatest. Engineers for the defense and engineers for the prosecution, Army engineers and Canadian engineers, have examined and re-examined the causes of an undeniable lowering of Great Lakes levels. Their reports have shown that the Chicago drainage canal can be charged with only a small fraction of the shrinkage. Nature, and men in cities other than Chicago, have done the rest. The engineers stated just how much effect various degrees of diversion at Chicago would have on the levels in general; pointed out means of preventing any lowering outside of Lake Michigan (by control...