Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
...apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery pinhead and eight scaly humps; 4) a giant squid; 5) "an abomination with a three-arched neck"; 6) a cold-blooded crocodile; 7) a cool fabrication...
Brisk, businesslike, ultraconservative Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey. permanent Secretary to the Cabinet, the Committee of Imperial Defense, and Clerk of the Privy Council, last week relinquished these posts, accepted a $9,000-a-year directorship on the Suez Canal Co. board...
...companies engaged in foreign commerce, this arrangement meant calm seas ahead. But to lines in domestic coastwise trade it presaged disaster. Those that had mail subsidies lost them, got nothing in return. For those operating between Atlantic and Pacific ports, Panama Canal tolls ate heartily into whatever profit remained. For such companies the choice has been: 1) to transfer ships to foreign trade to be eligible for subsidies, or 2) to founder...
...rental of the Canal Zone, the U. S. Government in 1904 contracted to pay the Republic of Panama $250,000 annually. When President Roosevelt knocked the U. S. dollar down to 59? in 1934, the U. S. handsomely agreed to up the annual rent to $430,000. But since the day the new rent was first due (Feb. 26, 1934), the U. S. has paid not a cent, now owes $2,150,000. Reason: The new agreement was buried in the revamped U. S.-Panama treaty, still unratified by the U. S. Senate, presumably because of the fear that other...