Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of retiring some Government bonds with relatively high interest rates, however, the Treasury will call its lowest coupon bonds of all-the pre-War 2% Consols and the 2% Panama Canal issues. The saving in debt service will be only a trifling $13,500,000 annually. But that was not Mr. Morgenthau's prime purpose. In one of the slickest Treasury moves in history, he was hatching not one bird but four...
...Survey of the Nicaragua Canal" forms the subject of an illustrated talk which Lieutenant B. B. Talley, Corps of Engineers, of the United States Army, will give in the Institute of Geographical Exploration Wednesday afternoon...
Lieutenant B. B. Talley who spent two years in Nicaragua from 1929 to 1931 with the Canal survey, will speak tonight at the Institute of Geography. He will talk on the peoples, customs, and archeology of Nicaragua...
...agent in Manhattan buys a cargo of rusty old rails, iron pipe, sawed-off steel girders, stoves, smashed automobiles. He loads it into a creaky freighter already headed for the junk heap. Manned by Japanese, the ship takes on enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another ship, another...
...college was. He said, "The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee." Turning to his aide, Archie Butt, the President said, "Why, that is your college, too," and Major Butt nodded assent. Then turning to his third guest, the Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, without whom the Panama Canal could not have been built, "And where were you educated, Gorgas?" the President asked. "Sewanee, sir," came the General's answer...