Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would reflect badly on the moral authority of Great Britain. The average Englishman realizes this, but it is hard for him also to realize that it is partly the fault of a Government which allowed tons of poison gas to be shipped to Italian armies through the Suez Canal and permitted British Oil companies to sell their products as fuel for Mussolini's airplanes and tanks. They have learned the bitter lesson that sanctions are useless and futile, unless they are carried through to their logical conclusions, relentlessly and brutally...
...same head-over-heels haste President Roosevelt had started another relief project at the other end of the Atlantic seaboard. Day after the S. S. Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...
Before it will appropriate money for such public works as Quoddy and the Florida Canal, Congress must first authorize their construction. President Roosevelt had neglected to ask Congress for such authorization. Therefore last winter the House declined to appropriate funds for Quoddy and the Florida Canal when the War Department Appropriation bill was passed. In the Senate Florida's Senator Fletcher fought in vain for his Florida Canal (TIME, March 30). Quoddy, however, was not even fought for Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Hale quietly told the Senate that so far as he was concerned...
...press conference newshawks politely asked what he intended to do about them. He replied that he did not intend to carry them on as relief projects on relief money any longer. Washing his hands of Quoddy, on which he had spent $5,500,000, and the Florida Ship Canal, in which he had sunk $5,400,000, the President declared it was now up to Congress to take care of the two White House orphans...
America has been pouring relief funds into Porto Rico to the tune of a million a month. The cessation of this might not mean social disruption, but the most cautious Porto Ricans predict just that. Losing the island will not mean exposing the Canal Zone, for the naval base on the island of Culebra will be retained, as will various fuclling stations. In fact, it seems in every way advantageous to the United States to play the part of a kindly big brother. Porto Rico will be distinctly the loser if that country fails to see through this quasi-benevolent...