Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly, some Congressmen demanded that Hungary be cut off from the benefits of the $350 million foreign relief loan. Cried House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Charles Eaton: "If Russia takes over the soul of Hungary, let her take over Hungary's alimentary canal at the same time...
...into the Suez Canal last week plowed the 9,424-ton freighter Katoomba, bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself...
...readers get what they want, when it is what Hibbs (who considers himself an average reader) wants too. What they get is, among other things, fresher than before, but still not hot news. Until 1939, West Coast copies were shipped by boat through the Panama Canal. This week the issue of July 5 is being made up, but if something new has to be added, some pages can now be changed as late as 18 days from "Post...
Honeymoon (RKO Radio) provides a grown-up role for Shirley Temple (who in private life is now a settled matron of 18). In the film, Shirley goes to Mexico City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers...
...Orleans is to be the port of their dreams, something must be done about the treacherous, 110-mile channel from the port to the Gulf. New Orleans would like Congress to appropriate $82 million to build a 62½-mile tidewater ship canal from New Orleans straight east to the Gulf. Such a canal would be free from silt and cheap to maintain. If "U.S. engineers approve, it will be up to Congress...