Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marauders. Merrill's troops are no novices to jungles, where novices are often less than useful. All joined up after a Presidential call for volunteers "for a dangerous and hazardous mission." From the jungle training bases of Trinidad and the Canal Zone, from Guadalcanal and New Georgia came many a veteran Regular Army man itching for action. Some old-timers like Sergeant John Russell of Hammond, La., ex-Marine who wears the Navy Cross he won in Nicaragua. Others were the young, unmarried zealots who usually make fine soldiers...
...private company wouldhave to give it anyway. He also alleged that, "if my memory serves me correctly," oil delivered by a 1,200-mile pipeline would cost more in the long run than oil routed by tanker over the 3,300-mile run around Arabia and through the Suez Canal...
Among Grandpappy's recent errands was a flight from an eastern Pacific base to the U.S. mainland, carrying 40 enlisted men home after many months on the unexciting, warless fringes of civilization. He has borne hundreds of girls from Miami to government jobs in the Canal Zone. Said a crew member: "The gals like him. They know they can trust Grandpappy...
...year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned to fly, in '42 was on active anti submarine patrol duty off the New England coast. He died of a heart attack in Greenwich, Conn...
Last week word went around Manhattan that some of the mildewed bundles of art had been rescued, could be seen in the back room of a dingy Canal Street bric-a-brac shop run by one Henry C. Roberts. Art dealers snapped up hundreds of pictures at $3 to $5 apiece. They planned to clean, mount, frame and resell them...