Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French girl shanghaied by the captain of a tramp steamer to whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea-the determination to get home again-and through her tiny, personal crisis, as she seeks help from one man after another in the Canal Zone, is gradually revealed the gargantuan plot of a munitions firm to start a war by blowing up the U. S. Navy as it passes through the Canal...
...studios a censor who was won over, stayed to coach Fenton in Japanese mannerisms. The U. S. Navy demanded changes which would clear it of any appearance of negligence. The Government of Panama objected to the undignified manner in which the script portrayed Panamanian natives and the Canal Zone authorities protested against the presence of motion picture cameras in fortified zones. Arrangements satisfactory to all parties, however, were made in the script before production; no scenes had to be reshot...
Roosevelt I coveted a piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America...
...Consideration of the proposed Atlantic-Gulf ship canal across Florida was dropped by the Public Works Administration today on the grounds it was outside the normal self-liquidating requirements...
...came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...