Word: canalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew down Florida, hopped to Jamaica, crossed the Caribbean to the Canal Zone?everywhere the favorite guest at most important dinners?the Navy's forces were converging in the tropics. Before them was Fleet Problem 12. Eastward across the Pacific steamed a supposedly hostile fleet composed of nine battleships, an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Langley) with 40 planes, three "treaty" cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could...
David Ingalls was overjoyed. His aircraft had beaten off battleships, saved the Canal, proved their worth. The performance of the Los Angeles so exceeded his expectations that he enthusiastically radioed the Navy Department in Washington that the necessity for continued development of lighter-than-aircraft had been conclusively proved. He contended that the "spot" the dirigible had made was important enough to justify her? and his?sacrifice...
Oliver G. Lucas, vice president of Chase National Bank, was made president of Canal Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans. A year ago Chase was supposed to have acquired a big interest in Canal Bank...
...Ismail Sidky Pasha sitting in his box glowering at Former Prime Minister Mustafa Nahas Pasha, his bitterest political enemy, in a box just opposite. The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that same opera house. The tunes, familiar as the Nile settings, promised no great excitement...
...than a year from an inventor who says his patents have been usurped by Radio Corp. of America. Police and Post Office Department agents, seeking the inventor, said they knew his name but would give no clew to his identity beyond stating that he once had Manhattan offices in Canal St. and is living comfortably off royalties from a ventilating device...