Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had any reason to expect they would be. Orders from the Allies had set U.S. aircraft factories humming; designers, encouraged by the Army, & Navy, were ready with new engines and aircraft; U.S. industry was ready. And oldtime believers in air power, such as Frank Andrews (commander of the Canal Zone), Delos Emmons (of Hawaii) and Hap Arnold, held the top Air Force commands...
...Brehon Somervell the New Deal provided new opportunities, as it did for many an engineer. As executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates...
Longer Hauls. In 1929 the average freight movement was 317 miles; last year, 367; this year, it is estimated, well above 400. Many a roaring train whistling through the night is on a transcontinental journey with West Coast lumber, canned goods and foodstuffs formerly shipped through the Panama Canal. Westbound freightcars are going back full for the first time in a generation, loaded with guns and tanks for MacArthur, supplies for California aircraft plants and shipbuilders. Diversion of shipping from the Atlantic ports to the Gulf means long north-south hauls of sugar, coffee, bauxite. All-rail movement of coal...
Henry Stimson wanted U.S. citizens to expect the blow, to nerve themselves to take it. The Japanese would sneak one or more carriers close to the West Coast-or to the Panama Canal or to Alaska-and take revenge. The Germans could do something similar to the East Coast. The people could only hope that the U.S. defenses were better than Tokyo's-and that the people would not be as frantic as Tokyo's civilians...
They have achieved a formal unity of command in specific theaters-MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific, General Andrews in the Panama Canal area, etc. Yet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real...