Word: canalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-nine years ago the U. S. Congress was on the verge of approving a Nicaraguan canal. Frenchmen who wanted the U. S. to take the Panama site off their hands were in despair. Their promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over...
...even with the Panama Canal completed at a cost of $388,000,000, a national defense argument persisted that the U. S. required two canals to link its Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In 1916 the U. S. purchased for $3,000,000 a 99-year option to build a canal across Nicaragua, from Greytown through Lake Nicaragua to Brito, a distance of 177 mi. In 1929 after traffic through the Panama canal had increased at a rate to indicate serious congestion by 1955, President Hoover appointed a special board to; study the feasibility and cost of the Nicaraguan route...
Though it raised lay doubts elsewhere, last week's earthquake did not shake the Hoover board out of its conviction that a Nicaraguan canal would be safe-just as safe as Panama. Anticipating much the same argument against the project that Senator Hanna had used, Sydney Bacon Williamson, the board's chief civilian engineer, cited these facts: 1) last week's earthquake was 60 mi. from the proposed canal route; 2) Panama in the last 35 years has had 16 earthquakes to Nicaragua's 14; 3) an extraordinarily severe earthquake is required to damage the massive...
...earthquake will have no serious bearing on the Nicaraguan canal problem. . . . The earthquake menace is virtually the same for both routes...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...