Word: canalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norman Armour and Paul Knabenshue, career diplomats, were reappointed to Haiti and Iraq, respectively. Lieut.-Colonel Julian L. Schley, whose nomination by President Hoover had been held up along with those of all other Hoover nominees, was continued in nomination to be Governor of the Panama Canal Zone...
...Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...
Dissatisfaction with a state-owned transportation system was what launched the Pennsylvania R. R. 86 years ago. Stretching from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh (at the head of navigation on the Ohio River) was an extraordinary series of state-owned railways, canals and skidways over the Alleghenies, built to compete with New York's booming Erie Canal. Canal boats, constructed in sections, were trundled through the streets of Philadelphia on low-wheel trucks, hauled to a railway, then chuffed, towed, pushed and slid over the 395 mi. of "State Works" to Pittsburgh. In winter when canals froze, all transportation ceased...
Threatened with domestic revolution Japan turns to a foreign war to save the empire. A U. S. concession in China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from...
ERIE WATER-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Solid novel of the building of the Erie Canal, by the solid young author of Rome Haul and The Big Barn...