Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help. In Phoenix, an automobile gave a tow to six horses that had got stuck in a canal...
...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...
...used shrewdness, good works and good will to improve its Central American relations. No longer merely a place where bananas come from, Central America has great strategic importance, not only for naval and air bases but as the only land bridge to the vital Panama Canal. More than anything else in past history, the Pan American Highway, being rushed to completion at a cost of $80,000,000 in Central America alone, has brought the republics together. Where present roads and rails run east and west from ocean to ocean, the new highway will tie them all up with...
...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
Next the surgeon tunnels into the exposed muscle with a special steel dilator, twisting and turning until he has formed a canal in the muscle through which he draws the tube of skin. The bare muscle, which now encases the tube, is covered over with a patch of skin from some other part of the patient's body...