Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of how much the U. S. owes foreign nations to whom it has promised 100? gold dollars. This question has been a hot issue with the Republic of Panama to which the U. S. promised to pay 250,000 100? dollars per year as rent for the Canal Zone. In 1934 and again last February Panama indignantly rejected checks for 250,000 59? dollars. Last week, on the same day that the President sent his message to Congress, it was unofficially made known in Washington that the State Department had decided to honor the pledge...
...hospitality, had an elevator installed in the Presidencia so that he and beauteous, curvesome Senora Arias could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until last week all Dr. Arias had got from his fellow ruler was 1) an offer of 59? dollars for Canal rent; 2) a Roosevelt order permitting the sale of liquor in the U. S. Canal Zone which thus deprived Dr. Arias' constituents of a profitable business...
...some detectives to protect Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Italy. In the House of Commons, Captain Eden rose for His Majesty's Government to call the Italian Press "wild." And Major Clement Attlee suggested: "If Italy intends to use force against Abyssinia we should close the Suez Canal to Italian troops...
...aviation's future, Author-Pioneer Loening is convinced: "The railroads are as obsolete today as the great Erie Canal was in 1830. . . . The handwriting is on the wall for the steamship lines also. . . . At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above the ocean, flying through the warmer stratosphere, far above storms or ice or fog- this is the way we will cross from New York to London in six hours in the not very distant future...
From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro. Behind the palace's mooring poles stood Signor Mario Alvera, Podesta (Mayor) of Venice, and Professor Nino Barbantini, director of The Modern Art Gallery. Together they led their King through the greatest collection ever assembled of the works of Venice's greatest painter, Tiziano Vecelli...