Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell of the Army Engineers arrived in Florida to begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would...
Most valuable of Hills & Youngberg's contributions to the canal cause was Engineer George B. Hills himself, who also happened to be the New Deal's dispenser of patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...
...bundled his 76 years into a taxicab, went to the White House to see Franklin Roosevelt. Whether Senator Fletcher's call or Mr. Hills's political pressure elsewhere turned the trick, the fact remained that, day after the Dixie grounded on French Reef, Franklin Roosevelt opened the canal game with an ante...
...which exploded a dynamite charge which shot a fountain of Florida earth skyward. Gangs of WPA workers and mules were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired or in process of acquisition, 6,600 men were at work, excavation was proceeding...
...allotment made in January has barely kept them going. It was distinctly discouraging last week when the House Appropriations Committee reported to the floor a $543,341,506 Army supply bill, largest in peacetime history, which failed to include $29,000,000 which President Roosevelt had asked for the canal and four other non-military enterprises. The committee explained somewhat lamely that its omission of this item was not to be construed as an outright abandonment of the projects concerned, that the money might be included in a Deficiency Bill "before adjournment." Senator Fletcher, now a defender of the canal...