Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy...
...regents can, and often do, take care of onetime governors with soft jobs in their banks or corporations, notably the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, favorite sinecure for loyal politicians. Another thing that tends to weaken the resistance of governors is the fact that many of them have to borrow money to buy their 100 qualifying shares. In boom days 100 shares of Bank of France stock was worth, at present parity, more than $150,000 and last week, after a 50% decline in the past year, more than $30,000. The regents or their banks are only...
Late one drowsy afternoon last week a pretty, red-haired girl and two men strolled out of an ornate apartment house on New Orleans' Canal Street and climbed into a waiting automobile. Passersby gaped as a score of purposeful men suddenly vaulted from behind bushes and parked cars, surrounded the machine in which the girl and her friends sat. Under the muzzles of sawed-off shotguns and revolvers the men were trussed up like hogs ready for butchering, all three dumped into waiting automobiles, whirled away...
Britain sent her fleet to the Mediterranean, talked of closing the Suez Canal...
...vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...