Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...
Through the Panama Canal last week steamed 48 heroic ships of the U.S. fleet carrying 57,000 veterans of the Pacific war-and one historic metal table...
School of the Air chops up the week with five subjects. Mondays feature U.S. history (The Genius of Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons...
...studies: maybe it was because he had already put in two years at Ohio State. The Howitzer labeled him "divinely tall and most divinely fair" and his wife, whom he calls Miss Em, still quotes it, remembering the second lieutenant who proposed to her 34 years ago in the Canal zone the first evening...
...Canal Zone the voice on the bullhorn of the transport General Harry Taylor blared: "Now hear this! Watch the shadow of the ship." Then the Taylor's skipper, Captain Leonard B. Jaudon, added: "As it turns toward New York...