Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
...which Pundit Lippmann excepted from his suggested reduction) the Army today numbers a round 1,400,000 in officers and men. For purely defensive purposes, military experts now consider that the U.S. Army needs as minima these forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs a minimum task force...
...West Coast used to get much of its steel through the Canal, may have to choose between steel and coal in the peak carloading period. More and more aid-to-Russia (and China) will have to move westward by rail...