Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monster, four-motored Boeing bomber. Since the first B-17 was delivered to the Air Corps in 1937, the Flying Fortresses have served the Army with the plodding but spectacular fidelity of a string of prize Percherons. Manned by veteran pilots, B-17s have made countless jumps to the Canal Zone and South America, have ranged far out to sea, made long, heavily loaded hops. None has crashed...
Where then is the threat? It is in South America, where the Nazi legions, wielding the double-edged sword of economic pressure and propaganda, may slowly close in on the Panama Canal, undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...
Later in the week a convoyed line of big troop transports reached Egypt after an uneventful trip from Britain all the way around Africa, up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
...long siege and food blockade. But if the Japanese succeeded in taking the rest of the Indies, they might do something they have long planned on paper and for which they have even formed a company: ignore Singapore's throttlehold on trade with the west by cutting a canal through Thailand's 17-mile-wide Kra Isthmus...