Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uniforms had been bought. Did that argue trans-equator service? Any British crew signed on for more than six months is customarily provided with whites. So The Maureen was ready for a six-month hitch at least. Five days after leaving New York, the Mauretania had reached the Panama Canal...
About Mary there were no clues except that she needs her bottom scraped and cannot get through the Panama Canal. Chances were Canada had some men & munitions to be carried before another Australian contingent would be ready or needed, so Halifax seemed a likely spot to send the swift* Mary first. Germany might be launching another U-boat wave (see col. 1), but nothing last week would have better suited the fighting British heart, as well as Mr. Chamberlain's political necessities, than a gesture of defiance...
...There are two ways of looking at the U. S.: as 48 States, in all of which together there is only one leprosarium; as a nation, which is much better off because Hawaii has two leprosaria; the Canal Zone, one; the Philippine Islands, three; Puerto Rico, one. TIME might well have taken the more embracing view...
Careers as well as martyrs were made that Easter Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...
...drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than the U. S. could tolerate an enemy seizure of the Panama Canal; demands that Britain give up its financial power-in short, an end of Britain's power, an end of the British Empire, as the price of peace. Whether or not the Führer shouted such claims to Sumner Welles in the Chancellery, they were certainly in the inspired stories from...