Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as the Blue Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Josiah S. McKean, composed of 58 vessels, including only a few battleships, but with seven of the fast scout cruisers recently added to the fleet and with three new S type cruising submarines, was to advance up the coast from the Canal to prevent the Black Fleet from making its base. The Blue Fleet was supposed to know the time when the Black Fleet had started and its greatest speed...
Toward the end of July, the Prince will set sail for South America, in which continent he will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, possibly Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, returning through the Panama Canal to Portsmouth or Plymouth on completing an eight months' tour...
Shiraksky Canal. Comrade Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of the People's Commissars (Cabinet) of the Central Government at Moscow, accompanied by Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...
...absolute independence- that is, to end British control of Egypt's foreign affairs, to insist upon the withdrawal of British financial advisors and British troops on Egyptian territory, to transfer from the British the right to protect foreign minorities and to claim sole right of protecting the Suez Canal. Furthermore, he would abolish the Anglo-Egyptian condominion in the Sudan and make that country an integral part of Egypt wholly under Egyptian rule...
...action on the proposal for Government purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...