Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wasn't Sesostris III the Pharaoh who built the first Suez Canal? You leave us uninformed on this interesting point in your Jan. 4 article noting the placing of his statue at the canal entrance...
...Pliny (A.D. 23-79) credits Sesostris III (D. 1849 B.C.) with starting a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Nile, making a water route to the Mediterranean...
...Dredging & Construction Co. Ltd. and J. H. Pomeroy & Co. Inc., a San Francisco engineering firm. Both Hawaiian Dredging and Pomeroy, which have done construction work for the sugar planters for years, are old hands at development projects; Hawaiian currently is in a three-company U.S. combine deepening the Suez Canal...
...blond wearing a robin's egg-blue dress. She smiled and asked "What's your name and where do you come from." "Panama, but we read the papers down there. I rode up on my burro but his feet got wet crossing the canal." "Oh, really? My father loves horses." They danced for a few minutes, and Gene became bored. "Excuse me, I have to go. Big polo match tomorrow and my horse kicks me if I'm late." "Oh really? My father loves horses...
...longer shows a pattern of antagonism for the West. Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take the offer most to our benefit." Despite the Russians' head start...