Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atop this, the U.S. is using South American airlines more than ever. Most of this new flying is war business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed...
...operators are doing all they can to prevent such beefs. Last week Panagra started a new all-cargo service between Lima and the Canal Zone, set up a new trans-Andean schedule between Antofagasta and Salta to boot...
...Navy-Army cooperation, which some military men think has been created by a unified command in such areas as the Panama Canal (under an Army man) and Hawaii (under a Navy man), is still in many places more form than fact. Navy or Army men, although sometimes asking or lending aid to the other services, seldom plan campaigns as if the two services were working...
...listened to Edward G. Robinson, Jane Cowl, Bob Burns, Jack Pearl, Red Skelton, Fanny Brice, Amos 'n' Andy and other comedians and actors snarl at the Axis, repeat the tales of U.S. heroes, past & present. Some heroes spoke for themselves, by short wave, from England, Hawaii, the Canal Zone...
...over 150,000 passengers, nearly two million tons of freight, thousands of sacks of mail. To Brazil, 248,700 square miles larger than the U.S. but with only 20,000 miles of railroads (mostly extending westward to the interior), this offshore communication line is more vital than the Panama Canal...