Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between life and death when a hurricane grounded that Morgan liner on French Reef in the Florida Keys (TIME, Sept. 16). Next morning in Washington President Roosevelt, master of the psychological moment, announced that $5,000,000 in relief money would be spent in starting a trans-Florida ship canal that would forever make it unnecessary for seagoers to risk their lives in circumnavigating Florida's long, hurricane-blistered thumb...
...Spaniards talked about a canal across the northern part of Florida 150 years ago. General Andrew Jackson, first U. S. Governor of the Territory of Florida, was enthusiastic over the canal idea. President John Quincy Adams, Jackson's political rival, went so far as to have Army engineers survey a route. Generations passed and in 1930 Florida Congressmen got a bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan...
When President Roosevelt announced that the canal would be started at once even Florida gaped with astonishment. Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity. Those who knew anything about the surveys understood that all the official reports made on the canal had been adverse; that the canal would cost $200,000,000 or more; that with interest at even 2% on the investment, the waterway would never pay for itself; that with no interest, tolls would pay for the investment only after about...
...Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
Rounding a curve just before taking a bridge across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...