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Word: canalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Rees told Dr. C. F. Duncan, D.D.S., that she had never had a toothache in her life, that his most excruciating drill left her indifferent. Dr. Duncan took X-rays of her jaw, dropped his when he discovered that not one of her 32 teeth had a root-canal or nerve of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...canal is a farm. We carry it on our books at $4,000. Now if they will loan me 8,000 I will gladly "sell" it to the PWA and they can put a lot of men to work on it. By draining the alkali spot it can be made into a beautiful park or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...want is some help to pull my canal out of the dumps. It won't take but a fraction of what it did to "rescue" the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Chicken Feed | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Presumably put through privately by Chairman Jones and Daniel Willard Jr., the deal was as fabulous as it was timely: through RFC, B. & O. sold its down-at-the-heel canal to PWA (subject to a court receivership settlement) for $2,000,000, approximately $1,000,000 above its book value, thereby getting enough cash to meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canal Rescue | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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