Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
Protected by great stretches of blue water, Balboa is the heart of naval defense of the Canal, will need far-flung defenses if an enemy ever gets a foothold on the Pacific side of South America. It may need protection, even before that event, from harassing raids by enemy carriers or by long-range bombers, when factories begin producing raiders like Douglas Aircraft...
...citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...
...might be knocked out. The minimum hope was that a heavy cost might be inflicted on the Germans. By last week it was certain that the minimum rather than the maximum hope would be realized. The Germans had already counterattacked across Libya and developed a threat to the Suez Canal (see p. 23). They accomplished this, in spite of the British Fleet, by flying some troops to Tripoli. The British suspected that the French had helped the Germans supply their Libyan Army...
Their discovery was made with the new biological technique: use of mildly radioactive substances as food. These can be traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...