Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President loafed, the Williamsburg cruised leisurely up Chesapeake Bay, through the canal to Delaware Bay, and slipped into the open ocean for the trip to Hampton Roads...
Hiss: Yes, I have. It's a beautiful bird. I saw one down by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
...prothonotary warbler. He said he had seen one around Glen Echo (near the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal outside Washington...
Congressman Willis Bradley, who regards himself as the canal expert of the House of Representatives, says the cost of a Colombian water-level (i.e., no locks) canal would be a "fantastic" $7 billion. The ditch would be 95 miles long, cut through a divide which is 932 feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change...
Died. Francis Butler Loomis, 87, turn-of-the-century U.S. diplomat, in Burlingame, Calif. As Minister to Venezuela, he played a major part in opening up Latin America to U.S. trade; later, as Acting Secretary of State, he negotiated the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone...