Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quartersphere Safe. Last week President Dr. Arnulfo Arias of Panama announced that his country had granted the U. S. the right to build air bases anywhere in Panama for defense of the Canal. This was the first agreement on bases to be concluded in Latin America. Panama's new President is one of the most totalitarian-minded and nationalistic of Latin America's caudillos.* Someone must have had to persuade him thoroughly before he agreed to this Good Neighborly gesture...
...John Gutzon de La Mothe Borglum, the Mount Rushmore Memorial had been the crowning fight of a fighting career. Born nearly 70 years ago of Danish immigrant parents on an Idaho ranch, Borglum started out by modeling mud figures as a child on the banks of a nearby irrigation canal. When priests at a Catholic boarding school in Kansas tried to get him to draw saints and madonnas, he ran away to San Francisco to study, went on to Paris, where he worked under famed Sculptor Auguste Rodin. Back in the U. S. he bounded with bull-like energy into...
...walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...
...Stuka bases in Sicily. For five hours they shuttled past overhead, wheeling and diving on gasoline stores and bomb dumps. German reconnaissance pilots returned from a flight over Suez with photographs showing two vessels sunk in the channel, congested knots of shipping tied up at both ends of the Canal...
...mark) of the Reichsbank's money he formed the Hermann Göring Works to compete with his steel friends in the Ruhr. With the help of famed U. S. Engineer Herman Alexander Brassert, he built a smelter, a rolling mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into a vertical trust, overflowed in every direction: into coal fields in Upper Silesia, gravel pits, quarries, lignite mines east of the Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power...