Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms the British Royal Air Force may at all times operate over Egypt. The British Navy will have a permanent base at Alexandria for which it will pay rent to Egypt. And the Egyptians agree to build strategic roads fanning out from the British Garrison in the Suez Canal Zone so that British troops may rapidly reach any part of Egypt...
Over a period of eight years the British forces now holding garrisons throughout Egypt will gradually be concentrated along the Suez Canal, it being estimated that the Egyptians will take eight years to build suitable barracks for them there and complete the strategic roads. Since Egyptian public opinion is exceedingly hostile to continued British occupation of the Citadel at Cairo-equivalent to occupation of the Tower of London by an alien military force-it was expected that the British would soon quit the Citadel and that this would be a popular feather in the fez of Premier Nahas...
...reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver. As the world's trade with Japan and China increased and the Panama Canal made possible water shipment of Canadian wheat, Vancouver's magnificent harbor became a key port. Today some of the West Coast's toughest, smartest tycoons are Vancouver's Harvey Reginald MacMillan (lumber, salmon), Austin Charles Taylor (oil, gold), the Spencer brothers (stores, gold...
...ousted board of Regents are some of France's best financial brains, including François de Wendel (coal, steel, munitions), the Marquis de Vogüe (Suez Canal Co.. chemicals). President René Duchemin of the French Manufacturers' Association, Robert Darblay (paper), Louis Blanc (casinos) and Ernest Mallet, current representative of a banking family which has had a member on the board since the Bank's foundation, 136 years ago. To gether the old Regents are worth probably 7,000,000,000 francs...
...Brockport, N. Y., Maxwell Breeze, 14, was drowned July 4 as he swam in the Erie Canal. Friends insisted that a cur (Airedale+wolfhound) named Idaho had climbed Breeze's back, forced him under. Ten days later Daniel Houghton, 21, said Idaho had nearly drowned him in the same manner. Straightway he took the case to court, demanded Idaho's death. A storm of controversy blew up & down the land. Dimes and quarters were sent for Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered...