Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldsters of the Air Corps arriving in the Canal Zone nowadays are greeted by a familiar face. "Grandpappy," only air plane in the world that, is systematically referred to as "he," is still at work there...
Originally designed (by Boeing) as a combat plane, Grandpappy long since has been only a packhorse. His insigne is an overloaded elephant. These days he thunders around the Caribbean carrying great quantities of cargo - as much as 15 tons pay load per trip. Flying from the Canal Zone to Trinidad is routine for Grandpappy, whose great gas tanks enable him to fly 24 hours at a stretch...
...Army says the situation need not worry U.S. citizens. U.S. ships usually go through the Canal without stopping at Suez and U.S. soldiers have come un scathed out of worse plague spots than Suez...
...theater district, Central Park, and Broadway would be undisturbed. But the rest of Manhattan, now "all mixed up," would be reshuffled in a more orderly scheme: placing industry along the belt highway, housing in separate areas and parks around the riverfront fringes. In the now-blighted downtown area between Canal Street and Washington Square, Herrey's plan proposes a great, permanent Fair, which might include a proposed fashion center...
...which he grew more & more fond of as the other successful ideas raced on to practical accomplishment while the failure stayed in the laboratory. Old Peter Cooper's pet was a continuous chain drive for boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit that pulled a boat eight miles an hour against the current of the East River. But farmers along the canal, who sold feed to the tow mules, refused to permit the chain to be installed...