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...been for the U.S. Navy victory at Midway, the story might have been different. But there it was: in an official exchange of notes made public last week, Canada dropped her option on the 550-mile Canol pipeline (TIME, March 5), built by the U.S. at a cost of $134 million when oil in the north seemed a vital requirement against a possible Japanese invasion of Alaska. Now Canol was on the open market, and there were no takers...
...maintenance has been done since the U.S. abandoned it last spring, leaving behind millions of dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...
Patterson did not mention the rest of Ted Wyman's gaudy career. For his "meritorious and distinguished service in Hawaii," he got the D.S.M. Then he was assigned to the ill-fated Canol Project and the Alcan Highway. At the request of the Canadian Government he was removed. But he stayed on the job in Canada long enough to be officially reprimanded for "failure to enforce safety regulations" after one of his contractors' trucks exploded, killing eleven men and destroying a third of the town of Dawson Creek...
...Senate Committee grew inquisitive last week about another reckless Army wartime venture that (like Canol) blew up. The Committee's curiosity was aroused by the 905-mi. highway from Mexico to Panama, which Army engineers had figured would cost a mere $14,714,000. Undertaken with the approval of the General Staff and the Secretary of War, the road cost $42,715,591 before it was abandoned...
...height of its production, Canol expensively puts out no more oil and gasoline in a year (1,000,000 bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...