Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for the first time since the Panama Canal was opened to traffic on Aug. 15, 1914, a ship sank in the canal.* In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches...
...Most fictitious war stories involving the U. S. and a foreign power begin with the mysterious sinking of an enemy ship in the canal which is thereafter rendered useless for interocean fleet movements...
...Erie Canal. This sectional point was wisely not brought out in the minority committee report written by Senator Wagner. "The very core of the St. Lawrence plan," said he, "is the intent to face the railroads with competition, and thus to decrease activity in one industry as fast as it is created in another.'' The President anticipated all such arguments by stating in his special message: "It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement to better commercial communications, whether in the case of railroads into new territory, or the deepening of great rivers...
Times. Believers agreed that the creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck...
...Supervision of religion in CCCamps. setting up an agency to handle China Famine Relief, running churches in the Canal Zone...