Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...
Three American outposts-the Panama Canal, Australia and Pearl Harbor-are in grave danger because of Army and Navy bickering for control of air power...
...Canal. "Much was made of the announcement that . . . Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, who is perhaps our ablest exponent of air power, was given 'full responsibility' for the defense of the Panama Canal," writes Colonel Knerr. But "the Navy began trimming his wings. . . . The area around the Windward Islands . . . [ is ] obviously . . . [ an ] area that anyone responsible for the defense of the Canal would like to know is being patrolled most carefully. But General Andrews . . . has no authority to direct the patrolling. [ He ] supplies the heavy bombers . . . but they can't leave the ground . . . until directed...
...threat, not a promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...would have to cooperate in some form of organized medical service, gave them four choices: 1) to accept commissions in Army or 2) Navy; 3) to work for the Public Health Service; 4) to accept assignments in such Federal civilian agencies as the Indian Service, Veterans' Administration, Panama Canal, Children's Bureaus...