Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further protective equipment and forces and new locks at the Panama Canal...
...Department to draw up estimates for 65,000-ton leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...
...Poncet was back from Paris with these reputed offers: 1) Djibouti, the French Red Sea terminus of Italian Ethiopia's only railway, to be leased to Italy for 90 years; 2) Italy to be allowed to purchase an increased share in the closely held stock of the Suez Canal Co. to insure lower rates for Italian shipping through the Canal, main water route to Ethiopia; 3) Italians in French Tunisia, who are almost as numerous as Frenchmen, to receive increased rights and civic status...
...escape or scuttle was the 13,615-ton liner Cap Norte. Last week she arrived in English waters from the South Atlantic under a British prize crew. Another, the Düsseldorf, captured off Chile by the British cruiser Despatch, last week prepared to transit the Panama Canal under a prize crew...