Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge talked and thought canals. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee of the Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal, to cost between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. As an economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability...
...Senator Edge's statement that another lock in the Panama Canal or a new canal through Nicaragua will soon be necessary, is flatly contradicted by a recent report of the Senate Appropriations Committee which indicates that the Panama Canal is now operating at less than half capacity and that the tonnage passing through it has never approached the peak reached...
Running under forced draft the Chateau Thierry reached San Francisco, from New York by way of the Panama Canal, in 13 days, 22 hours, a record run. At San Francisco, the shipboard epidemic was under control. Only 75 men still suffered. Ambulances took bed-ridden cases from the dock to the hospitals. Undertakers called for four...
...United States must build a Nicaraguan canal immediately...
...Therefore Washington proposes reduction of light armaments, with the double motive of gaining the support of Great Britain and staving off danger from Japan until the Nicaraguan Canal shall be built...