Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been confirmed that a small canal extending from the Charles to Wellesley's Lake Waban is navigable for small craft, thus eliminating the necessity for a final portage. The fact that Spring rains have swollen the river should make other shallow sections more amenable to navigation...
...degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean to the other, money might much better be spent on further fortifying the Panama Canal, or digging another canal through Nicaraugua, rather than on super-battleships which will be obsolete a decade after they are launched...
...unexploited riches and its strategic nearness to the U. S., if Hitler wins his war and claims his western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...
CHAD HANNA-Walter D. Edmonds -Little, Brown ($2.75). Another long (548-page), affable, remunerative haul along the Erie Canal. This one is about an orphanage runaway who picks up with Huguenine's Great and Only International Circus in 1836. Harmless, built-to-please, as neat and mild as a good carpenter's shavings...
...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...