Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill happy members rolled out the pork barrel, singing a song of defense. The House Rivers & Harbors Committee, traditional Congressional gravy boat (composed of members who never let their right hands know what their lefts are doing), last week dusted off the defunct old $150,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, named it a defense project, urged an authorization. Other measures were...
Martinique is Vichy's Caribbean hinge, equidistant (about 1,400 miles) from the Panama Canal and Key West, Fla. The U.S. has no particular reason to be in Martinique-but it has every reason to keep an enemy out. Once strongly based there, hostile naval and air power would be an effective, intolerable menace to the Canal, the Caribbean, the U.S. and its sea and airlanes to Latin America...
...first or second week of June, the machine would be ready to roll in earnest. Through Turkey by guile or by force, through Syria with the permission of Vichy, through Iraq with the support of anti-British Arabs, through Palestine and Trans-Jordan and right to the Canal it would roll. At the same time the Axis force in Libya, which was still sparring experimentally last week, would drive across Egypt. Also at the same time the Luftwaffe, in deadly concentration, would "bomb the British ships until the sea is black with their wreckage." Such was the German plan...
...which time was a crucial factor. The immediate stake was the oil of Iraq, and last week's scrimmages suggested that the British might not have time or strength systematically to destroy the wells and refineries before the Germans arrived in force. The secondary stake was the Suez Canal...
...plus $300 war-risk insurance) from U.S. Lines. Brooklyn shipyard workers are repairing her bottom (injured by the Florida sand bar on which she ran aground in January), installing extra bunks for troops, preparing her for her first Army voyage on June 18-through the Panama Canal to Hawaii with soldiers and materiel...