Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...
Repeatedly in British air communiques appeared such place-names as Essen, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, "the goods yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...first time raided Port Said, north terminus of the Suez Canal (and said they cut the Egypt-Palestine rail-road where it crosses the Canal near Ismailia...
...moon was about half full, everything was quiet until we got to the point where the canal forked just before the two aqueducts. Then suddenly everything started at once-searchlights and all the anti-aircraft fire. It was unfortunate from our point of view, of course, that the enemy knew pretty well the direction from which we must attack. They had disposed their defenses so that they formed a sort of lane through which we had to pass. It seemed that they had strengthened these defenses a great deal since the first raids...
...invasion of the Caribbean islands would be a direct threat to the Panama Canal and the mobility of the U. S. battle fleet. A successful invasion of the St. Lawrence Valley would bring the chief war resources of the U. S. -the industrial plants of the Boston -Cleveland -Pittsburgh -Philadelphia quadrilateral - within easy range of enemy bombers. Taking off from Montreal a 250-mile-an-hour bomber can be over Boston in 60 minutes, Buffalo in 75, Pittsburgh in two hours. Established on the line Montreal-Quebec, an invader in strength could move into the northeastern U. S. over...