Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they tried to enter. Altogether the Nazis claimed 80,000 Greeks in Thrace; possibly there were not more than 30,000. As they were gradually cleaned out, the Metaxas Line took its place in the rank of sad, futile names: Maginot Line, Mannerheim Line, Albert Canal, Carol's Line...
Because the Government is considering a plan to draft seaworthy vessels out of intercoastal trade to meet the growing shortage in ocean shipping, the railroads last week were in a fair way to get back most of the freight they lost to the Panama Canal. But the carriers-already pressed for freight cars by the defense boom-had good cause to be frightened as well as pleased...
...Association of American Railroads claims that all the intercoastal Canal freight (around 7,700,000 tons) would not give the transcontinental lines as much as a 1% increase in carloadings. Yet it might be the camel's last straw. Already car-loadings on these lines are up some 20% over last year and some of them have scarcely enough surplus cars for comfort...
Long a nightmare to the U.S. State Department has been the Nazi airline web in South America (TIME, Jan. 27). German pilots fly regularly over 18,850 route miles, most of them in highly strategic territory, some of them just a short jump from the Panama Canal. But last week the web was weakening, looked as if it might, some day disappear...
...Canal Zone, last month. He had sailed from Manhattan on the same ship with Playwright Thornton Wilder, who is on a cultural mission to Latin America. At sea Anderson fell ill, 48 hours later had to be carried ashore at Colon on a stretcher...