Word: channel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense mobilizers say that Europe will have to pay dollars for the oil, but for the long pull ways could be found to advance financial aid so that Europe's industry can keep rolling and the NATO area remain viable. Most hopeful prospect: the Administration is planning to channel most Western Hemisphere oil through the 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Thus, while handling the short-term emergency, the U.S. is helping to advance the long-term concept of an economically integrated Western Europe...
...clear away completely the 47 vessels and two bridges with which the Egyptians blocked the canal promises to be a formidable operation. But British and French salvage experts who, by last week, had cleared a "Liberty-ship channel" suitable for 10,000-ton ships as far south as El Cap, estimated that a similar channel could be opened all the way down the canal within three months, allowing one way traffic to thread its way past other hulks...
...calculations depend is: How soon will the Suez Canal be open again? By last week the first optimistic predictions of three months' work had turned to talk of six months' or more. Once the work is under way, salvage experts hope to clear a shallow channel for ships of 25-ft. draft in a few weeks. Then tankers plying the cape route to Europe from the Persian Gulf could take a short cut through Suez on the empty return trip, cut their time by 25% and costs proportionately...
...undertake the thankless job of paying off the Democrats' $1,000,000 deficit from the last campaign), said the Digest will no longer be aimed at a "limited intellectual audience." It will be converted from a "political luxury the party cannot afford" to a direct channel of communication between the national commit tee and Democratic precinct workers...
...There are some trouble-free spots (e.g., Massachusetts), but Editor John A. Roberts of the Racing Pigeon Bulletin says that pigeons are in trouble in most of the world. English fanciers recently lost all but 100 of a 7,000-to-8,000 bird flight from the Channel Islands...