Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into the locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan tribute to Cordell Hull: "The good neighbor policy has been made a realistic policy instead of a phrase to catch the imagination...
Chief Weymouth and his lieutenants made several contributions to engineering science. They designed special canal grading and lining machines. They proved the efficacy of curved steel I-beams for tunnel supports. And they learned how to weld steel pipe an inch thick...
When Ferdinand de Lesseps set out to build the Suez Canal in 1859 he was a dignified widower of 54, who had had five sons by his first wife. Five days after the canal was finished in 1869 Ferdinand de Lesseps married again. By his second wife he had six more sons and as many daughters. Of the 17* de Lesseps offspring seven were still alive last week...
...Already in effect is a concession to Germany whereby trains from Annaberg and Mittehwalde to Breclav are not subject to Czech customs regulation as they cross Bohemia. A German-built canal will connect the Oder and the Danube...
...been held up due to lack of materials, to changes in plans during construction, or to dissatisfaction with newly completed ships. The result is that both parts of the country's defense forces are to be greatly delayed in consummation. And now Secretary Woodring has called the Panama Canal defenses inadequate...