Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Talley has been connected with the U. S. Army Air Corps experimental aerial photographic mapping work since 1924. In 1929-31 he took part in the army survey of the Nicaragua canal site...
...Foreign Secretary Eden to state his case. The use of poison gas against the Ethiopians was the point at issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
...very embarrassing situation if it refuses to grant the money to finance the enforcement of these bills. It can not expect to increase the necessary duties and administration of the "G" men and at the same time withhold the funds to meet the added demands. The Florida canal was started with great excitement, but as soon as the initial fanfare had died down, funds were withdrawn, and the project temporarily abandoned. This must not happen to the Department of Justice, since the work has been begun admirably, and it would be utter folly to curtail its usefulness, just...
...summary action taken by President Roosevelt in abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal...
...never forgetting the large and well paid machines behind these personalities. Economy will, in short, probably have more to do with the election of the next President than any other single issue. Whatever the result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project signalizes the beginning of a stringent economy on the part of the Administration. The age-old adage, never too late to learn, seems to have been invoked in the nick of time by that distinguished political figure, "Honest Jim" Farley...