Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweating gun crews cheered. Six Spanish ships were destroyed, the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa was chased onto the beach. U.S. Commodore W. S. Schley wigwagged: "Well done, brave Oregon." And because the Oregon was almost late to battle, she clinched another argument, which ended U.S. isolationism forever: a Panama canal was vital to U.S. defense...
Sugar. Ugly rumors of a Harlem-trained fifth column have been given wide-eyed credence in some Washington quarters. But the problem of Jamaica is endemic throughout the chain of strategic U.S., British, French and Dutch islands guarding the approaches to the Panama Canal. In its more somber and involved aspects the crisis resembles that in India. The immediate problem is the lack of shipping, which Nelson Rockefeller hopes to solve by building Caribbean schooners. Basically the problem is that of a one-crop economy (primarily sugar; sugar and bananas in Jamaica). Emphasis on monoculture has kept the potentially self...
...Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii by the time of the Armistice. There were also 300 marinettes or Marine Corps girls. But none were officers...
...barrels a day, the East can stop worrying about fuel-oil shortage, since barges, pipelines and local wells are now providing more than 300,000 barrels and will do even better with some mild sort of rationing in the Middle West. Eastbound barges via the Erie Canal are not being fully utilized, as there is no surplus for them to bring East. Thus a total of close to 1,400,000 barrels a day is in sight for the East Coast, even before the new Texas-Illinois pipeline is built and without counting on any help from the tanker convoys...
...expect to do it when they get fully established?" An old Alaska hand, who has prospected for gold and practiced law, Delegafe Dimond declared that there are 25,000 Jap fighters in the Aleutians.* By taking Kiska the Japs are nearer the U.S. Pacific coast-and the Panama Canal-than if they had won Midway. "The Japs knew the size of their own forces, so why wasn't the U.S. public informed of the invading force's size?" asked Tony Dimond...