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...United States however reluctantly ... to the exercise of an international police power " Teddy's was the Big Stick. In 1903 after the U.S. had kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba and supported Panama's revolt against Colombia because of Washington's interest in an isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted in chaos under the corrupt anti-American dictatorship of Jose Santos Zelaya, President Taft sent in troops, who occupied...
Tapping Brine. Morton grew out of a small agency established in Chicago in 1848 to distribute salt shipped via the Erie Canal from producers in the East. The expansion of Chicago's meatpacking industry after the Civil War really started the company growing; salt is one of the world's most effective preservatives. The growth also attracted a 24-year-old railroad clerk named Joy Morton, who joined the firm in 1879, owned it by 1885. Morton found salt deposits in nearby Michigan, began producing his own supply, gave the company his name and remained president...
...words were aptly illustrated in his home town, where some 400,000 West Berliners visited relatives in East Berlin on special Easter passes. Even more restless was an East German family of five who stole across the Wall, a 17-year-old girl who swam across a boundary canal, and an East German engineer who bilked a West German visiting East Berlin over Easter out of his identity papers by posing as a member of the secret police, then used the papers to flee into West Berlin...
...guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...Russians began improving their canal system before World War II, resumed work on it again in 1959. They have dredged rivers, built dozens of locks and reservoirs. The heart of the waterway is a 224-mile stretch in western Russia, where they replaced 39 antique locks with seven modern ones twice the size of those in the huge Volga-Don Canal, which hooks the whole system into the Black Sea. The system so far will take only shallow-draft ships, and the Russians insist that anyone who wants to ship over it do so in Russian or satellite ships. With...